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Cooling Effects Revealed by Modeling of Wetlands and Land-Atmosphere Interactions

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WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH
卷 58, 期 3, 页码 -

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AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021WR030573

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant
  2. Global Water Futures Program
  3. Canada First Research Excellence Fund
  4. Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS)
  5. Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship - Ducks Unlimited Canada's Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research
  6. Wildlife Habitat Canada
  7. Bass Pro Shops Cabela's Outdoor Fund
  8. Alberta NAWMP Partnership

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This study aims to dynamically represent the spatial extents and hydrological processes of wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) and investigate their feedback to regional climate. The wetland simulations show a cooling effect on summer temperatures, especially in areas with high wetland coverage.
Wetlands are important ecosystems-they provide vital hydrological and ecological services such as regulating floods, storing carbon, and providing wildlife habitat. The ability to simulate their spatial extents and hydrological processes is important for valuing wetlands' function. The purpose of this study is to dynamically represent the spatial extents and hydrological processes of wetlands and investigate their feedback to regional climate in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America, where a large number of wetlands exist. In this study, we incorporated a wetland scheme into the Noah-MP land surface model with two major modifications: (a) modifying the subgrid saturation fraction for spatial wetland extent and (b) incorporating a dynamic wetland storage to simulate hydrological processes. This scheme was evaluated at a fen site in central Saskatchewan, Canada and applied regionally in the PPR with 13-year climate forcing produced by a high-resolution convection-permitting model. The differences between wetland and no-wetland simulations are significant, with increasing latent heat and evapotranspiration while suppressing sensible heat and runoff in the wetland scheme. Finally, the dynamic wetland scheme was applied in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The wetlands scheme not only modifies the surface energy balance but also interacts with the lower atmosphere, shallowing the planetary boundary layer height and promoting cloud formation. A cooling effect of 1-3 degrees C in summer temperature is evident where wetlands are abundant. In particular, the wetland simulation shows reduction in the number of hot days for >10 days over the summer of 2006, when a long-lasting heatwave occurred. This research has great implications for land surface/regional climate modeling and wetland conservation, especially in mitigating extreme heatwaves under climate change. Plain Language Summary A large number of wetlands exist in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) across the US and Canada. These wetlands are important to our environment as they can provide flood control and wildlife habitat and may cool the temperature, but they are poorly represented in previous land surface model (LSM) studies. In this study, we updated a dynamic wetland module in the Noah-MP LSM to reasonably estimate wetland extent and seasonal variation in the PPR. This wetland module shows significant impacts to the surface environmental conditions and interactions with regional climate. The results show that wetlands would effectively cool the air temperature 1-3 degrees C in summer, especially for regions with high wetland coverage. The implication of this study is very useful for wetland conservation agencies and climate scientists, as this cooling effect could potentially mitigate heat stress under climate change.

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