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29 Sep 2017
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State and parameter estimation of two land surface models using the ensemble Kalman filter and the particle filter
Hongjuan Zhang
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Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG 3), Jülich, Germany
Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems: HPSC TerrSys, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG 3), Jülich, Germany
Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems: HPSC TerrSys, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Xujun Han
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG 3), Jülich, Germany
Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems: HPSC TerrSys, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Jasper A. Vrugt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
Department of Earth Systems Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
Harry Vereecken
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Agrosphere (IBG 3), Jülich, Germany
Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems: HPSC TerrSys, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 3143–3167, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3143-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-3143-2023, 2023
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Olga Dombrowski, Cosimo Brogi, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Damiano Zanotelli, and Heye Bogena
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Nicholas Jarvis, Jannis Groh, Elisabet Lewan, Katharina H. E. Meurer, Walter Durka, Cornelia Baessler, Thomas Pütz, Elvin Rufullayev, and Harry Vereecken
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Lukas Strebel, Heye R. Bogena, Harry Vereecken, and Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
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Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 6087–6106, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6087-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6087-2021, 2021
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Yafei Huang, Jonas Weis, Harry Vereecken, and Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-569, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2021-569, 2021
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Mengna Li, Yijian Zeng, Maciek W. Lubczynski, Jean Roy, Lianyu Yu, Hui Qian, Zhenyu Li, Jie Chen, Lei Han, Han Zheng, Tom Veldkamp, Jeroen M. Schoorl, Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Kai Hou, Qiying Zhang, Panpan Xu, Fan Li, Kai Lu, Yulin Li, and Zhongbo Su
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Jan Vanderborght, Valentin Couvreur, Felicien Meunier, Andrea Schnepf, Harry Vereecken, Martin Bouda, and Mathieu Javaux
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In this study we were able to significantly improve CLM5 model performance for European cropland sites by adding a winter wheat representation, specific plant parameterizations for important cash crops, and a cover-cropping and crop rotation subroutine to its crop module. Our modifications should be applied in future studies of CLM5 to improve regional yield predictions and to better understand large-scale impacts of agricultural management on carbon, water, and energy fluxes.
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Short summary
Applications of data assimilation (DA) arise in many fields of geosciences, perhaps most importantly in weather forecasting and hydrology. We want to investigate the roles of data assimilation methods and land surface models (LSMs) in joint estimation of states and parameters in the assimilation experiments. We find that all DA methods can improve prediction of states, and that differences between DA methods were limited but that the differences between LSMs were much larger.
Applications of data assimilation (DA) arise in many fields of geosciences, perhaps most...
