Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-529-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-529-2017
Review article
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27 Jul 2017
Review article |  | 27 Jul 2017

A global data set of soil hydraulic properties and sub-grid variability of soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity curves

Carsten Montzka, Michael Herbst, Lutz Weihermüller, Anne Verhoef, and Harry Vereecken

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Global climate models require adequate parameterization of soil hydraulic properties, but typical resampling to the model grid introduces uncertainties. Here we present a method to scale hydraulic parameters to individual model grids and provide a global data set that overcomes the problems. It preserves the information of sub-grid variability of the water retention curve by deriving local scaling parameters that enables modellers to perturb hydraulic parameters for model ensemble generation.
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