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Research article
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21 Apr 2015
Research article |
| 21 Apr 2015
Gravitational and capillary soil moisture dynamics for distributed hydrologic models
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Singapore
F. Castelli
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
D. Entekhabi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Singapore
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Short summary
Using two sites with different climates, we show that a 1-pixel version of a distributed hydrologic model that uses a single soil layer with a novel dual-pore structure and employs linear parameterization for infiltration and other fluxes and has comparable performance to a benchmark detailed soil water physics solver in capturing the essential local-scale soil moisture dynamics.
Using two sites with different climates, we show that a 1-pixel version of a distributed...
