Enhancing the Community Noah-MP Land Model Capabilities for Earth Sciences and Applications
Cenlin He, Fei Chen, Michael Barlage, Zong‐Liang Yang, Jerry Wegiel, Guo‐Yue Niu, David Gochis, David M. Mocko, Ronnie Abolafia‐Rosenzweig, Zhe Zhang, Tzu‐Shun Lin, Prasanth Valayamkunnath, Michael Ek, Dev Niyogi
Abstract
Land surface plays an important role in the Earth system, modulating global and regional energy and water balances through interacting with the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, ocean, and sea ice. Accordingly, land surface models (LSMs), which simulate the key biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes that interact with and feed back to weather, climate, and other Earth environments, are an indispensable component of Earth system models (ESMs). LSMs have been broadly used in Earth science applications to tackle critical and big societal challenges, including wildfire, flooding, heatwave, drought, water availability, agriculture, food security, urbanization, weather forecast, and climate projection (Blyth et al. 2021).