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A Review on Land Surface Processes Modelling over Complex Terrain

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Title (Dublin Core)

A Review on Land Surface Processes Modelling over Complex Terrain

Description (Dublin Core)

Complex terrain, commonly represented by mountainous region, occupies nearly one-quarter of the Earth’s continental areas. An accurate understanding of water cycle, energy exchange, carbon cycle, and many other biogeophysical or biogeochemical processes in this area has become more and more important for climate change study. Due to the influences from complex topography and rapid variation in elevation, it is usually difficult for field measurements to capture the land-atmosphere interactions well, whereas land surface model (LSM) simulation provides a good alternative. A systematic review is introduced by pointing out the key issues for land surface processes simulation over complex terrain: (1) high spatial heterogeneity for land surface parameters in horizontal direction, (2) big variation of atmospheric forcing data in vertical direction related to elevation change, (3) scale effect on land surface parameterization in LSM, and (4) two-dimensional modelling which considers the gravity influence. Regarding these issues, it is promising for better simulation at this special region by involving higher spatial resolution atmospheric forcing data which can reflect the influences from topographic changes and making necessary improvements on model structure related to topographic factors. In addition, the incorporation of remote sensing techniques will significantly help to reduce uncertainties in model initialization, simulation, and validation.

Creator (Dublin Core)

Wei Zhao
Ainong Li

Subject (Dublin Core)

Meteorology. Climatology
QC851-999

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Hindawi Limited

Date (Dublin Core)

2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Type (Dublin Core)

article

Identifier (Dublin Core)

1687-9309
1687-9317
10.1155/2015/607181
https://doaj.org/article/b83bebd55b3e4a8f9bf79ba72f426ce2

Source (Dublin Core)

Advances in Meteorology, Vol 2015 (2015)

Language (Dublin Core)

EN

Relation (Dublin Core)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/607181
https://doaj.org/toc/1687-9309
https://doaj.org/toc/1687-9317

Provenance (Dublin Core)

Journal Licence: CC BY