Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2831-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2831-2014
Model description paper
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03 Dec 2014
Model description paper |  | 03 Dec 2014

GEOtop 2.0: simulating the combined energy and water balance at and below the land surface accounting for soil freezing, snow cover and terrain effects

S. Endrizzi, S. Gruber, M. Dall'Amico, and R. Rigon

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GEOtop is a fine scale grid-based simulator that represents the heat and water budgets at and below the soil surface, reproduces the highly non-linear interactions between the water and energy balance during soil freezing and thawing and simulates snow cover. The core components of GEOtop 2.0. are described. Based on a synthetic simulation, it is shown that the interaction of processes represented in GEOtop 2.0. can result in phenomena that are relevant for applications involving frozen soils.