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Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4653-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4653-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 14, issue 12
Research article
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21 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 21 Dec 2020

The role of vadose zone physics in the ecohydrological response of a Tibetan meadow to freeze–thaw cycles

Lianyu Yu, Simone Fatichi, Yijian Zeng, and Zhongbo Su

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4653-2020-supplement

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Multiyear in-situ L-band microwave radiometry of land surface processes on the Tibetan Plateau Z. Su, J. Wen, Y. Zeng, Hong Zhao, S. Lv, R. van der Velde, D. Zheng, X. Wang, Z. Wang, M. Schwank, Y. Kerr, S. Yueh, A. Colliander, H. Qian, M. Drusch, and S. Mecklenburg https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12058038.v1

Soil Hydraulic and Thermal Properties for Land Surface Modelling over the Tibetan Plateau H. Zhao, Y. Zeng, and Z. Su https://doi.org/10.4121/uuid:61db65b1-b2aa-4ada-b41e-61ef70e57e4a

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Short summary
The role of soil water and heat transfer physics in portraying the function of a cold region ecosystem was investigated. We found that explicitly considering the frozen soil physics and coupled water and heat transfer is important in mimicking soil hydrothermal dynamics. The presence of soil ice can alter the vegetation leaf onset date and deep leakage. Different complexity in representing vadose zone physics does not considerably affect interannual energy, water, and carbon fluxes.
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