Implementing an advanced land surface scheme into an AGCM: methodology and results

Z-L. Yang, A. J. Pitman, A. Henderson-Sellers

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    Abstract

    This paper describes the first order impacts of incorporating a complex land-surface scheme, the Bare Essentials of Surface Transfer (BEST) into the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC) global atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM). A two-year climatology from the AGCM with BEST has been compared with a ten-year simulated climatology without BEST. The wintertime simulations with BEST show significant improvements especially over the Northern Hemisphere mainly due to the more realistic treatment of snow cover. However, the summertime simulations with BEST are worse than those from the current BMRC AGCM due to the poor specification of albedo and roughness length. Incorporating BEST into the BMRC AGCM leads to an overall reduction of surface wetness, evaporation, cloud cover and precipitation, results consistent with findings by other authors.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationExchange processes at the land surface for a range of space and timescales
    EditorsHans-Jürgen Bolle, R. A. Feddes, Jetse D. Kalma
    Place of PublicationWallingford, Oxfordshire
    PublisherInternational Association of Hydrological Sciences
    Pages583-590
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Print)0947571531, 9780947571535
    Publication statusPublished - 1993
    EventInternational Symposium on Exchange Processes at the Land Surface for a Range of Space and Time Scales - Yokohama, Japan
    Duration: 13 Jul 199316 Jul 1993

    Publication series

    NameIAHS PUBLICATION
    PublisherINT ASSOC HYDROLOGICAL SCIENCES
    ISSN (Print)0144-7815

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Symposium on Exchange Processes at the Land Surface for a Range of Space and Time Scales
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityYokohama
    Period13/07/9316/07/93

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