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A one-dimensional soil-vegetation model is developed for future incorporation into a mesoscale model. The interaction of land surface processes with the overlying atmosphere is treated in terms of three coupled balance equations describing the energy and moisture transfer at the ground and the energy state of the vegetation layer. For a complete description of the interaction, the coupled processes of heat and moisture transport within the soil are included as a multilayer soil model. As model verification, successful reproductions of the observed energy fluxes over vegetated surfaces from the HAPEX-MOBILHY experiment in southwestern France and from the LOTREX-10E/HIBE88 field experiment in Germany are presented. Finally, some sensitivity studies are performed and discussed in order to investigate the influence of different soil and vegetation types on the energy state of the atmosphere.
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Deutscher Wetterdienst, Zentralamt, 6050, Offenbach, Germany.
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Siebert, J., Sievers, U. & Zdunkowski, W. A one-dimensional simulation of the interaction between land surface processes and the atmosphere. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 59, 1–34 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00120684
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