Author(s)

D.T. Mihailovic & M. Ruml

Abstract

This study is concerned with the question of how much the soil-plant- atmosphere model is sensitive to the prescribed roughness length for bare and plant-covered surfaces. The bare surface used at the atmosphere-land interface in the sensitivity was a chernozem soil at the experimental site in Rimski Sancevi (Yugoslavia) while a maize canopy, planted at the experimental site De Sinderhoeve (The Netherlands), was used for the plant-covered interface. The tests were performed by the land-surface parameterization scheme (LAPS) using two data sets. Using the latent heat flux, the ground temperature and the foliage temperature as the outputs, the sensitivity of the biophysical scheme to the prescribed roughness length was established. 1 Introduction Recently, we are the wi

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