Generation of Improved Land-Surface Data and an Assessment of its Impact on Mesoscale Predictions is part of a group effort by the Models and Assimilation Team at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, and the School of Natural Resource Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
When driven by observations, the Noah LSM clearly produces two distinct canopy resistance regimes. Each canopy resistance regime is apparent when the logarithm of canopy resistance is plotted against the incoming solar radiation. The regimes were separated using an empirical equation. The plots available below are an attempt to tease out the relationship between each regime (black and red) in order to separate each regime for a new empirical formula that computes the canopy resistance in a modified land surface model. |