Soil-Vegetation modeling
This unit connects the concepts of infiltration of precipitation or meltwater into the soil, evaporation of soil and intercepted water, water-uptake and transpiration by plants.
Goals
The goal of this unit is to describe how the exchange of water vapor, water, and heat density fluxes can be described in soil-vegetation models of numerical weather forecast models, Earth system and general circulation models, climate models and hydrological models.
After successful completion of this unit students will be able to
- Explain various types of soil-vegetation schemes
- Assess soil-vegetation models and discuss their limitations and uncertainties (graduate students)
Students’ tasks
- All students: Watch this movie
- Graduate students: Watch this video on soil-vegetation modeling
- All students: Take notes and fill out the questionnaire.
- All students: Solve the tasks assigned at your class level in this Unit 19 Applications sheet and submit the scanned results by the deadline
For the curious student: Land Surface Models with input data (optional)
In case that you have access to HPC, you may be interested to run a LSM check this site.
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