High-resolution simulation and validation of soil moisture in the arid region of Northwest China.

ABSTRACT: Soil moisture plays an important role in land-atmosphere interactions, agricultural drought monitoring, and water resource management, particularly across arid regions. However, it is challenging to simulate soil moisture of high spatial resolution and to evaluate soil moisture at fine spatial resolution in arid regions in Northwest China due to considerable uncertainties in forcing data and limited in situ measurements. Then, the data set was used to produce the 1 km high-resolution atmospheric forcing datasets and to drive the Community Land Model version 3.5 (CLM3.5) for simulating spatiotemporally continuous surface soil moisture. The capabilities of soil moisture simulation using CLM3.5 forced by the XJLDAS-driven field were validated against data obtained at three soil layers (0-10,

SUBMITTER: Meng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6872663 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature