HR: 0800h
AN: H11B-1266    [Abstracts]
TI: Evaluation of the Community Land Model (CLM) in the Florida Everglades
AU: * Jacobs, J
EM: jennifer.jacobs@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Department of Civil Engineering 35 Colovos Road, Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Guha, A
EM: aniguha@ufl.edu
AF: University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering 365 Weil Hall PO Box 116580 , Gainesville, FL 32611 United States
AU: Hatfield, K
EM: khatf@ce.ufl.edu
AF: University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering 365 Weil Hall PO Box 116580 , Gainesville, FL 32611 United States
AB: The Community Land Model (CLM) was developed as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional project designed to provide land surface forcings for the lower boundary of the Community Climate System Model. However, it has been calibrated and validated in a limited number of ecosystems. In this study, we examine the ability of CLM to capture the energy and water dynamics at nine sites in the Florida Everglades. All the sites are in a freshwater marsh habitat, the predominant Everglades ecosystem, and provide a network representative of the non-forested portion of the Everglades ecosystem in terms of plant communities, duration of water inundation (hydroperiod), and geographic coverage. Model evaluation considers the validity of prescribed wetland characteristics and recommended modifications to the model's parameterization and the structure to improve representation of the everglades ecosystem.
DE: 1814 Energy budgets
DE: 1840 Hydrometeorology
DE: 1847 Modeling
DE: 1890 Wetlands (0497)
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005