Closing the scale gap between land surface parameterizations and GCMs with a new scheme, SiB3‐Bins

Abstract The interaction of land with the atmosphere is sensitive to soil moisture (W). Evapotranspiration (ET) reacts to soil moisture in a nonlinear way, f(W), as soils dry from saturation to wilt point. This nonlinear behavior and the fact that soil moisture varies on scales as small as 1–10 m in...

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Main Authors: I. T. Baker, P. J. Sellers, A. S. Denning, I. Medina, P. Kraus, K. D. Haynes, S. C. Biraud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2017-03-01
Series:Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/2016MS000764