Improving the representation of river-groundwater interactions in land surface modeling at the regional scale: Observational evidence and parameterization applied in the Community Land Model

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 420-421, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-86

  Zampieri, M ^a,b   Serpetzoglou, E ^c   Anagnostou, E N ^a,d   Nikolopoulos, E I ^a   Papadopoulos, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Community Land Model; Groundwater; Regional hydrological model; Rivers feedback; Soil moisture; TOPMODEL

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MODEL; CARBON BALANCE; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INFILTRATION EXCESS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MESOSCALE NETWORKS; OBSERVED DATA; OKLAHOMA; REGIONAL HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; REGIONAL SCALE; RIVER WATER; RIVER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS; RUNOFF PRODUCTION; SOIL TYPES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUB-GRIDS; SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET; SURFACE PARAMETER; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOPMODEL; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; VERTICAL FLUXES; WATER CYCLE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; PARAMETERIZATION; RIVERS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER-SURFACE WATER INTERACTION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; LAND SURFACE; MASS BALANCE; MODIS; MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RESOLUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84856217237     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.11.041     Document Type: Article

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