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Research article
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18 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 18 Jan 2016
Lifetime of soil moisture perturbations in a coupled land–atmosphere simulation
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
S. Hagemann
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
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This study evaluates the lifetime of soil moisture perturbations using an atmosphere-land GCM. We find memory of up to 9 months for root zone soil moisture. Interactions with other surface states result in significant but short-lived anomalies in surface temperature and more stable anomalies in leaf carbon content. As these anomalies can recur repeatedly, e.g. due to interactions with a deep-soil moisture reservoir, we conclude that soil moisture initialization may impact climate predictions.
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