Fundamental process understanding and description of heat, mass, and momentum exchanges across the land‐atmosphere interface in model boundary forcing parameterizations is critical to the simulation of near‐surface soil moisture dynamics (e.g., bare‐soil evaporation). This study explores the sensitivity of a continuum‐scale porous media heat and mass transfer model to the spatial‐discretization length‐scales (i.e., spatial‐resolution) of near‐surface atmospheric data; the goal is to determine how much data are needed to force the model and adequately capture evaporative water losses and subsurface state variable distributions. The requisite atmospheric forcing data were taken from the high‐resolution, precision bare‐soil evaporation experiments of Trautz et al. (2018,
Precipitation and evapotranspiration, respectively, an input and an output for hydrologists and ocean scientists, but the opposite for meteorologists, quantify the intensity of vertical water exchange between land, ocean, and the atmosphere. The interesting paper by Dagan et al. (2019,
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10448927
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Volume:
- 46
- Issue:
- 21
- ISSN:
- 0094-8276
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 11968-11971
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- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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