Model
description:
1. List the most recent/important reference(s) for your LSSs.
2. Give the name of your model, as used in the output file
names (see Section 3.2.1 of the Implementation Plan)
3. What time step did you use for your LSS?
4. Describe the vertical structure (number and depth of layers,
or other methods of discretization) of your LSS for each
of the following:
a.
Soil
moisture
b.
Soil
temperature
c.
Snow
5. How were soil properties (wilting
point, field capacity, porosity, hydraulic conductivity, thermal conductivity,
etc.) assigned?
a.
From
provided fields (Table 3)
b.
Other
(describe)
6. Does your LSS include frozen soil properties:
a.
No
change in soil moisture treatment below freezing
b.
Binary
frozen soil moisture (all or none)
c.
Fractional
water and ice content in the soil
7. Does your LSS include liquid water in the snowpack?
8. What type of sub-grid parameterizations are used by your LSS
(what best describes your LSS)?
a.
Effective
parameters (and which parameters)
b.
Tile/mosaic
approaches (structure: i.e. multiple columns or many surfaces over a single
soil, etc.)
c.
Integration
using probability distributions (gamma, normal, etc...and for which variables)
d.
Some
combination of the above (describe)
9. What sub-grid parameterizations are used in your LSS? (none,
one or several of the below)
a.
Sub-grid
runoff scheme
b.
Sub-grid
precipitation interception
c.
Sub-grid
saturated fraction for evaporation
d.
Fractional
snow cover area parameterization and how it influences the overall surface
energy budget
e.
Other
(describe)
10. Is there recharge of soil moisture
from below from the water table?
11. What is the surface energy budget
structure of your LSS?
a.
Single
soil/snow/vegetation composite surface energy budget
b.
Distinct
canopy and soil with composite snow
c.
Distinct
soil, canopy and snow
d.
Other
(describe)
Data
issues: