Sensitivity of the ECMWF Land surface model to vegetation and LU/LC maps
- 1E.C.M.W.F, Phsical Aspect, Reading, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (souhail.boussetta@ecmwf.int)
- 2Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
The effects of vegetation and land use/land cover maps on surface energy and carbon fluxes predictions from land surface model are investigated. The model is applied at global scale and a comparison between two configurations using different land cover maps is performed. In the first configuration, the land cover is based on the operational GLCCv1.2 map, in the second the ESA-CCI land cover map is used.
Based on these two configurations, the observation operator that disaggregates the satellite-based leaf area index into high and low vegetation components is also modified to ensure optimal conservation of the observed LAI. The Seasonal variability of the vegetation cover is also investigated by introducing a modified lamber-beer formulation that allows varying the vegetation cover as a function of the LAI.
How to cite: Boussetta, S., Balsamo, G., Arduini, E., Nogueira, M., Arduini, G., Choulga, M., Wedi, N., and Munoz Sabater, J.: Sensitivity of the ECMWF Land surface model to vegetation and LU/LC maps, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-22238, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22238, 2020.
