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Frozen soil and snow are the two important factors in the land cryosphere. Their accurate simulations are significant for reducing the uncertainties in models and for improving the ability of model prediction. In this chapter, our recent progress on the evaluation and modification of the Community Land Model 3.0 (CLM3.0) in the simulation of soil hydrothermal process and snow cover are reviewed. Several issues in the parameterizations of freezing–melting and hydraulic properties of soil are summarized, and suggestions for improvement in our model performance on frozen soil and snow are offered.
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This work was supported by the key projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan Period (Grant No. 2012BAC22B02).
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Xia, K., Wang, B. (2014). Development of Land Surface Model in Frozen Soil and Snow. In: Zhou, T., Yu, Y., Liu, Y., Wang, B. (eds) Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model. Springer Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41801-3_44
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