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04 Dec 2024
Research article |  | 04 Dec 2024

Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem

Mohsen Amini Fasakhodi, Hakan Djuma, Ioannis Sofokleous, Marinos Eliades, and Adriana Bruggeman

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Amini Fasakhodi, M., Djuma, H., Sofokleous, I., Eliades, M., and Bruggeman, A.: Modeling water balance components of conifer species using the Noah-MP model in an eastern Mediterranean ecosystem, Zenodo [data set], https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10900317, 2024. 
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This study examined the water use of pine and cypress trees in a semiarid Mediterranean forest environment. We applied a widely used land surface model (Noah-MP) to simulate the water balance of the ecosystem. We found good modeling results for soil moisture. However, the model underestimated the transpiration of the trees during the dry summer months. These findings indicate that more research is needed to improve the modeling of ecosystem responses to climate and land use change.
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