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Frozen soil hydrological modeling for a mountainous catchment northeast of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau
Hongkai Gao
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education of China), East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System and Resources
Environment (TPESRE), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chuntan Han
Qilian Alpine Ecology and Hydrology Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Rensheng Chen
Qilian Alpine Ecology and Hydrology Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Zijing Feng
School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Kang Wang
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science (Ministry of Education of China), East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
School of Geographical Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Fabrizio Fenicia
Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology,
Dubendorf, Switzerland
Hubert Savenije
Water Resources Section, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
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Our objective is to investigate how satellite microwave sensors, particularly Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS), may help to reduce errors and uncertainties in soil moisture simulations with a large-scale conceptual hydro-meteorological model. We assimilated a long time series of SMOS observations into a hydro-meteorological model and showed that this helps to improve model predictions. This work therefore contributes to the development of faster and more accurate drought prediction tools.
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Short summary
Frozen soil hydrology is one of the 23 unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH). In this study, we developed a novel conceptual frozen soil hydrological model, FLEX-Topo-FS. The model successfully reproduced the soil freeze–thaw process, and its impacts on hydrologic connectivity, runoff generation, and groundwater. We believe this study is a breakthrough for the 23 UPH, giving us new insights on frozen soil hydrology, with broad implications for predicting cold region hydrology in future.
Frozen soil hydrology is one of the 23 unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH). In this study, we...
