Role of Runoff-Infiltration Partitioning and Resolved Overland Flow on Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks: A Case Study with the WRF-Hydro Coupled Modeling System for West Africa

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作者
Arnault, Joel [1 ,2 ]
Wagner, Sven [1 ,2 ]
Rummler, Thomas [2 ]
Fersch, Benjamin [1 ]
Bliefernicht, Jan [2 ]
Andresen, Sabine [2 ]
Kunstmann, Harald [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Meteorol & Climate Res, Kreutzeckbahnstr 19, D-82467 Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany
[2] Univ Augsburg, Inst Geog, Chair Reg Climate & Hydrol, D-86159 Augsburg, Germany
关键词
SOIL-MOISTURE; NUMERICAL WEATHER; PREDICTION MODEL; BOUNDARY-LAYER; PART I; DATA ASSIMILATION; VOLTA BASIN; SURFACE; PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE;
D O I
10.1175/JHM-D-15-0089.1
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
The analysis of land-atmosphere feedbacks requires detailed representation of land processes in atmospheric models. The focus here is on runoff-infiltration partitioning and resolved overland flow. In the standard version of WRF, runoff-infiltration partitioning is described as a purely vertical process. In WRF-Hydro, runoff is enhanced with lateral water flows. The study region is the Sissili catchment (12 800 km(2)) in West Africa, and the study period is from March 2003 to February 2004. The WRF setup here includes an outer and inner domain at 10- and 2-km resolution covering the West Africa and Sissili regions, respectively. In this WRF-Hydro setup, the inner domain is coupled with a subgrid at 500-m resolution to compute overland and river flow. Model results are compared with TRMM precipitation, model tree ensemble(MTE) evapotranspiration, Climate Change Initiative (CCI) soil moisture, CRU temperature, and streamflow observation. The role of runoff-infiltration partitioning and resolved overland flow on land-atmosphere feedbacks is addressed with a sensitivity analysis of WRF results to the runoff-infiltration partitioning parameter and a comparison between WRF and WRF-Hydro results, respectively. In the outer domain, precipitation is sensitive to runoff-infiltration partitioning at the scale of the Sissili area (similar to 1003 100 km(2)), but not of area A(5003 2500 km(2)). In the inner domain, where precipitation patterns are mainly prescribed by lateral boundary conditions, sensitivity is small, but additionally resolved overland flow here clearly increases infiltration and evapotranspiration at the beginning of the wet season when soils are still dry. The WRF-Hydro setup presented here shows potential for joint atmospheric and terrestrial water balance studies and reproduces observed daily discharge with a Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency coefficient of 0.43.
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页码:1489 / 1516
页数:28
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