Modeling of land surface-atmosphere exchanges of energy and evapotranspiration for the páramo highlands of southern Ecuador.

Abstract:

The study of land surface-atmosphere flux exchanges for mountainous regions has increased in the last decade. However, the pbkp_rediction of water losses and energy fluxes in natural and disturbed environments of highland biomes is still unexplored. This is the case of the Neotropical Andean biome of the páramo, where this lack of research is noticeable for energy fluxes (net radiation; sensible, latent and soil heat) and actual evapotranspiration (ETa). The present investigation assessed the parameterization of a state-of-art Land-Surface Model (LSM) for the pbkp_rediction of energy and ETa fluxes in representative páramo catchments of southern Ecuador. The LSM Community Land Model (CLM ver. 4.0) outputs were evaluated with (i) surface-level fluxes from the highest Eddy Covariance tower of the Northern Andean páramo Ecoregion, with complementary micrometeorological sensors;(ii) with remote sensing-derived …

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2019

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