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What value was used for the soil heat capacity in the Mosaic model for NLDAS-1 and NLDAS-2?

April 26, 2017heat model Mosaic nldas-1 nldas-2 soil Used value

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What value was used for the soil heat capacity in the Mosaic model for NLDAS-1 and NLDAS-2?

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A. The value used for Mosaic in NLDAS-1 is 175,000 J m-2 K-1, while the value used for Mosaic in NLDAS-2 is 70,000 J m-2 K-1. The name of this variable in the Mosaic code is “CSOIL0”. The reason for this difference is explained in detail in Section 5.3 within Robock et al. (2003).