Incorporating dynamic root growth enhances the performance of Noah-MP at two contrasting winter wheat field sites

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1337-1356

  Gayler, Sebastian ^a,b   Wöhling, Thomas ^a   Grzeschik, Matthias ^a   Ingwersen, Joachim ^c   Wizemann, Hans Dieter ^c   Warrach Sagi, Kirsten ^a,c   Högy, Petra ^c   Attinger, Sabine ^a,d   Streck, Thilo ^a,c   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b RUAKURA RESEARCH CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

ground heat flux; land surface model; latent and sensible heat; root water uptake; soil moisture; structural uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

GROUND HEATS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; ROOT-WATER UPTAKE; SENSIBLE HEAT; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BOUNDARY LAYER; HEAT FLUX; LAND SURFACE; ROOT SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SUBSOIL; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER FLOW; WATER UPTAKE; WHEAT;

GERMANY;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84893967229     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014634     Document Type: Article

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