On the appropriate definition of soil profile configuration and initial conditions for land surface–hydrology models  in cold regions

Sapriza-Azuri, Gonzalo; Gamazo, Pablo; Razavi, Saman; Wheater, Howard S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3295-2018

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13 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 13 Jun 2018

On the appropriate definition of soil profile configuration and initial conditions for land surface–hydrology models in cold regions

Gonzalo Sapriza-Azuri, Pablo Gamazo, Saman Razavi, and Howard S. Wheater

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of hess-2017-614', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Dec 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Gonzalo Sapriza-Azuri, 11 Feb 2018
RC2: 'Review of Sapriza-Azuri et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Jan 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #2', Gonzalo Sapriza-Azuri, 12 Feb 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (27 Feb 2018) by Sean Carey

AR by Gonzalo Sapriza-Azuri on behalf of the Authors (06 Apr 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (23 Apr 2018) by Sean Carey

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (30 May 2018)

ED: Publish as is (30 May 2018) by Sean Carey

AR by Gonzalo Sapriza-Azuri on behalf of the Authors (31 May 2018)

Short summary

Arctic and subarctic regions are amongst the most susceptible regions on Earth to climate change. There, models require a proper representation of the interactions between climate and hydrology. Typically these model represent the soil with shallow depths, whereas for cold regions, deep soil is needed. To address this, we run model experiments to characterize the effect of soil depth and temperature soil initialization. Our results demonstrate that 20 m of soil profile is essential.