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Design of land-air parameterization scheme (LAPS) for modelling boundary layer surface processes

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A land-air parametrization scheme (LAPS) describes mass, energy and momentum transfer between the land surface and the atmosphere. The scheme is designed as a software package which can be run as part of an atmospheric model or a stand-alone scheme. A single layer approach is chosen for the physical and biophysical scheme background. The scheme has six prognostic variables: two temperatures (one for the canopy vegetation and one for soil surface), one interception storage, and three soil moisture storage variables. The scheme's upper boundary conditions are: air temperature, water vapour pressure, wind speed, radiation and precipitation at some reference level within the atmospheric boundary layer. The sensible and latent heat are calculated using resistance representation. The evaporation from the bare soil is parametrized using the “α” scheme. The soil part is designed as a three-layer model which is used to describe the vertical transfer of water in the soil.

The performances of the LAPS scheme were tested using the results of meteorological measurements over a maize field at the experimental site De Sinderhoeve (The Netherlands). The predicted partitioning of the absorbed radiation into sensible and latent heat fluxes is in good agreement with observations. Also, the predicted leaf temperature agrees quite well with the observed values.

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  1. D. T. Mihailović

    Present address: Department of Meteorology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Yu-21000, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

  2. M. Ruml

    Present address: Department of Meteorology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, YU-11000, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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Mihailović, D.T., Ruml, M. Design of land-air parameterization scheme (LAPS) for modelling boundary layer surface processes. Meteorl. Atmos. Phys. 58, 65–81 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027557

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