Land surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters

The datasets archived here include simulation results shown in the paper, “Land surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters”, published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Maertens et al., 2021). The simulations were conducted over the South-American Dry Chaco and output on the different water budget components was produced with three land surface models (CLM2.0, CLSM-F2.5, and Noah3.6) embedded in the NASA Land Information System (LIS). The default LIS parameters were revised with (i) improved soil parameters, (ii) satellite-based interannually varying vegetation indices (leaf area index and green vegetation fraction), and (iii) yearly land cover information. For each experiment described in the manuscript, we provide daily netcdf files (0.125° resolution, period Jan 1992 – Dec 2015). The conducted experiments are simulations with (i) default LIS parameters (BL), (ii) updated soil parameters (REV_s) and (iii) interannualy varying vegetation and land cover parameters (REV_SV).
For details, please refer to

Maertens, M., De Lannoy, G. J. M., Apers, S., Kumar, S. V., and Mahanama, S. P. P.: Land Surface modeling over the Dry Chaco: the impact of model structures, and soil, vegetation and land cover parameters, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.

Please contact Michiel Maertens (michiel.maertens@kuleuven.be) or Gabriëlle De Lannoy (gabrielle.delannoy@kuleuven.be) for any questions.