期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 121, 期 20, 页码 12125-12144出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025223
关键词
land-atmosphere; evapotranspiration; soil moisture; vegetation; feedback
资金
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Atmospheric System Research, and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Programs [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
Biases in land-atmosphere coupling in climate models can contribute to climate prediction biases, but land models are rarely evaluated in the context of this coupling. We tested land-atmosphere coupling and explored effects of land surface parameterizations on climate prediction in a single-column version of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Earth System Model (CESM1.2.2) and an off-line Community Land Model (CLM4.5). The correlation between leaf area index (LAI) and surface evaporative fraction (ratio of latent to total turbulent heat flux) was substantially underpredicted compared to observations in the U.S. Southern Great Plains, while the correlation between soil moisture and evaporative fraction was overpredicted by CLM4.5. To estimate the impacts of these errors on climate prediction, we modified CLM4.5 by prescribing observed LAI, increasing soil resistance to evaporation, increasing minimum stomatal conductance, and increasing leaf reflectance. The modifications improved the predicted soil moisture-evaporative fraction (EF) and LAI-EF correlations in off-line CLM4.5 and reduced the root-mean-square error in summer 2m air temperature and precipitation in the coupled model. The modifications had the largest effect on prediction during a drought in summer 2006, when a warm bias in daytime 2m air temperature was reduced from +6 degrees C to a smaller cold bias of -1.3 degrees C, and a corresponding dry bias in precipitation was reduced from -111mm to -23mm. The role of vegetation in droughts and heat waves is underpredicted in CESM1.2.2, and improvements in land surface models can improve prediction of climate extremes.
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