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