Evaluation of the Effect of Low Soil Temperature Stress on the Land Surface Energy Fluxes Simulation in the Site and Global Offline Experiments

The root water uptake (RWU) rate of plants is influenced by various environmental factors. Low soil temperature stress can reduce RWU rate by inhibiting the growth of plant roots and increasing the hydraulic resistance of water transport among the soil‐plant‐atmosphere continuum. Given that low soil temperature stress is not accounted for in current land surface models (LSMs); in this study, we introduce three functions to represent low soil temperature stress, and modify the RWU scheme of the Common Land Model to quantify the role of low soil temperature stress on water and energy exchange between land and atmosphere. The simulated water and energy fluxes are evaluated using both in situ and global observational data sets. The results from in situ simulations show that ignoring effects of low soil temperature stress, latent, and sensible heat fluxes in spring are overestimated and underestimated, respectively, with the root mean square error up to 40 W/m2. By incorporating the low soil temperature stress functions into the RWU scheme, nearly 40% of the simulated errors are reduced. The global simulated results also highlight the importance of accounting for low soil temperature stress on increasing the accuracy of the modeled latent heat flux over high latitude areas. While uncertainties from related physical processes and parameters warrant further investigations, our results indicate that consideration of low soil temperature stress significantly affects water and energy transport from land to atmosphere by restricting RWU rate, emphasizing the need to integrate it in LSMs to increase the model reliability, especially over cold regions.

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