Assessment of WRF Land Surface Model Performance over West Africa

Table 1

Highlights of some major differences between the LSMs.

Description	Noah	Noah-MP	CLM4
Reference	[69]	[77]	[91]
No. of model soil layers	4	4	10
Depth of total soil column (m)	2	2	3.8
Model soil layer thickness	0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0	0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0	0.018, 0.028, 0.045, 0.075, 0.124, 0.204, 0.336, 0.553, 0.913, 1.506
Tiling vegetation	Not present	Present	Present
Soil water vertical diffusion	Not present	Present	Present
No. of snow model layers	1	3	5
TOPMODEL for surface runoff	Not present	Present	Present
Dynamic vegetation	Not present	Present	Present
Explicit vegetation	Not present	Present	Present