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28 Jan 2021
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Evaluating a land surface model at a water-limited site: implications for land surface contributions to droughts and heatwaves
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Martin G. De Kauwe
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Anna M. Ukkola
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
Andy J. Pitman
ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes and Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
Teresa E. Gimeno
Basque Centre for Climate Change, 48940 Leioa, Spain
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Belinda E. Medlyn
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, Australia
Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Jinyan Yang
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, Australia
David S. Ellsworth
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney 2751, Australia
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Short summary
Land surface model (LSM) is a critical tool to study land responses to droughts and heatwaves, but lacking comprehensive observations limited past model evaluations. Here we use a novel dataset at a water-limited site, evaluate a typical LSM with a range of competing model hypotheses widely used in LSMs and identify marked uncertainty due to the differing process assumptions. We show the extensive observations constrain model processes and allow better simulated land responses to these extremes.
Land surface model (LSM) is a critical tool to study land responses to droughts and heatwaves,...
