Research Article
Influences of Two Land-Surface Schemes on RegCM4 Precipitation Simulations over the Tibetan Plateau
Table 1
Comparisons of the BATS and CLM3.5 land-surface schemes in RegCM4.
| | | BATS | CLM3.5 |
| | Number of soil layers | 3 | 10 | | Soil temperature calculation | Force-restore method | Heat diffusion equation | | Soil freezing and thawing | Yes | A new frozen soil model (supercooled soil water) | | Number of snow layers | 1 | 5 | | Land use parameters | 20 (GLCC) | 5 landunits, 17 types (PFTs) represent vegetation | | Surface datasets | Leaf area index | MODIS products | | Soil texture | FAO Soil Map of the World | IGBP soil dataset |
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