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Integration of the vegetation phenology module improves ecohydrological simulation by the SWAT-Carbon model
Mingwei Li
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Shouzhi Chen
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Fanghua Hao
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Nan Wang
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Zhaofei Wu
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Yue Xu
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Jing Zhang
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
Yongqiang Zhang
Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Short summary
Climate-driven shifts in vegetation phenology have a significant impact on hydrological processes. In this study, we integrated a process-based phenology module into the SWAT-Carbon model, which led to a substantial improvement in the simulation of vegetation dynamics and hydrological processes in the Jinsha River watershed. Our findings highlight the critical need to incorporate vegetation phenology into hydrological models to achieve a more accurate representation of ecohydrological processes.
Climate-driven shifts in vegetation phenology have a significant impact on hydrological...
