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- Title
Local and Regional Scale Evaluation of the Integrated Urban Land Model by Comparing with the Common Land Model.
- Authors
Meng, Chunlei; Zhang, Wenlong
- Abstract
Land surface evaporation is not only an important parameter in natural land surface modeling, but a crucial important parameter in urban hydrology modeling. A whole-layer soil evaporation scheme was developed in the integrated urban land model (IUM) to improve the soil evaporation simulation. The impervious surface evaporation (ISE) was used as a component of urban water balance equation. In this paper, the integrated urban land model was validated at one desert site and six urban road sites to emphasize the improvement in the evaporation simulations for arid and urban areas. A sensitivity analysis was implemented in seven basins to expand the utility of the whole layer soil evaporation scheme. For the urban road sites, the validation results indicate that imperious surface evaporation (ISE) plays a crucial role in road surface temperature (RST) simulations on rainy days. For the desert site, the validation results show that the inner layer evaporation is very important in arid regions. For the basins, the analysis results indicate that the relative monthly mean differences in the evapotranspiration (ET) between the simulations with (IUM) and without (Common Land Model (CoLM)) considering the inner layer evaporation range from −8% to 8%, which is proportional to the degree of dryness. In arid areas, especially deserts, the inner layer soil evaporation could not be neglected.
- Subjects
LAND surface temperature; NATURAL landscaping; URBAN hydrology; MUNICIPAL water supply; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
- Publication
Advances in Meteorology, 2019, p1
- ISSN
1687-9309
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2019/4072497