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Enabling Advanced Snow Physics Within Land Surface Models Through an Interoperable Model‐Physics Coupling Framework

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العنوان: Enabling Advanced Snow Physics Within Land Surface Models Through an Interoperable Model‐Physics Coupling Framework
المؤلفون: Mahdi Navari, Sujay Kumar, Shugong Wang, James Geiger, David M. Mocko, Kristi R. Arsenault, Eric M. Kemp
المصدر: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol 16, Iss 4, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)
بيانات النشر: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Physical geography
LCC:Oceanography
مصطلحات موضوعية: snow model, interoperable coupling, Crocus, Noah‐MP LSM, Noah LSM, Physical geography, GB3-5030, Oceanography, GC1-1581
الوصف: Abstract Accurate estimation of snow accumulation and melt is a critical part of decision‐making in snow‐dominated watersheds. In this study, we demonstrate a flexible methodology to couple a detailed snow model, Crocus, separately to two different land surface models (LSMs), Noah‐MP and Noah. The original LSMs and the coupled models (Noah‐MP‐Crocus and Noah‐Crocus) are used to simulate snow depth, snow water equivalent, and other water and energy states and fluxes. The results of simulations are compared against a wide range of independent gridded and point scale reference data sets. Our results show that coupling the detailed snow model, Crocus, with the LSMs improves the snow depth and snow water equivalent relative to independent observations. Overall, larger improvements are obtained with coupling Crocus to the Noah LSM, with the coupled Noah‐Crocus configuration reducing the RMSE and bias of snow depth from 2% to 12% and 57% to 75%, respectively, relative to Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) and snow product from the University of Arizona. On the other hand, smaller improvements are obtained by coupling Crocus with Noah‐MP. The Coupled Noah‐MP‐Crocus reduces the snow depth bias but slightly degrades the RMSE of snow depth and snow water equivalent. The corresponding impacts in other water budget terms such as evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and streamflow, however, are mixed, pointing to the significant need to improve the coupling assumptions of these processes within land models. Overall, the interoperable coupling framework demonstrated here offers the opportunity to include more detailed snow physics and processes, and to advance data assimilation systems through improved exploitation of information from snow remote sensing instruments.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1942-2466
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/1942-2466
DOI: 10.1029/2022MS003236
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/5ba59093275446c79276eb55520a7e44
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.5ba59093275446c79276eb55520a7e44
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19422466
DOI:10.1029/2022MS003236