Authors: Su, Z.; Li, L.; Advisor: -; Participants: - (2015)
Thesis investigates the growing season net ecosystem CO2 exchange to understand abiotic carbon contribution to the carbon process at two desert ecosystems with alkaline soils in Kazakhstan; determines the key ecological parameters of desert shrubs for the use in LSM; modifies the original root water uptake function (RWUF) with a linear function of soil water potential to one with an exponential function for improving the performances of CLM for both latent and sensible heat fluxes in a Central Asian desert ecosystem; compares the default RWUF with other three RWUFs and the effect of root distribution on the performance of CLM is also investigated; evaluates the performance of CLM in s...
