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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2089-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-2089-2021
Research article
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20 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 20 Apr 2021

Impact of frozen soil processes on soil thermal characteristics at seasonal to decadal scales over the Tibetan Plateau and North China

Qian Li, Yongkang Xue, and Ye Liu

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Most land surface models have difficulty in capturing the freeze–thaw cycle in the Tibetan Plateau and North China. This paper introduces a physically more realistic and efficient frozen soil module (FSM) into the SSiB3 model (SSiB3-FSM). A new and more stable semi-implicit scheme and a physics-based freezing–thawing scheme were applied, and results show that SSiB3-FSM can be used as an effective model for soil thermal characteristics at seasonal to decadal scales over frozen ground.
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