- 1State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and Mountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource and Hydropower, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China
- 2Forest Ecology Lab, Department for Innovation in Biological, Agri-Food and Forest Systems (DIBAF), University of Tuscia, 01100, Viterbo, Italy
- 3CMCC Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Via Marco Biagi 5, 73100 , Lecce, Italy
How to cite: Huang, P., Wang, G., and Valentini, R.: Representing Plant Litter Insulation in Land Surface Models: A Critical Process for Simulating the Soil Thermal-Hydrological-Ecological Nexus in Cold Regions, EGU General Assembly 2026, Vienna, Austria, 3–8 May 2026, EGU26-22297, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-22297, 2026.