6.6. jules_hydrology.nml

This file sets the hydrology options. It contains one namelist called JULES_HYDROLOGY.

6.6.1. JULES_HYDROLOGY namelist members

JULES_HYDROLOGY::l_top

Type:logical Default:F

Switch for a TOPMODEL-type model of runoff production.

TRUE

Use a TOPMODEL-type scheme. This is based on Gedney and Cox (2003); see also Clark and Gedney (2008).

FALSE

No TOPMODEL scheme.

See also

References:

• Gedney, N. and P.M.Cox, 2003 , The sensitivity of global climate model simulations to the representation of soil moisture heterogeneity, J. Hydrometeorology, 4, 1265-1275.
• Clark and Gedney, 2008, Representing the effects of subgrid variability of soil moisture on runoff generation in a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 113, D10111, doi:10.1029/2007JD008940.

JULES_HYDROLOGY::l_pdm

Type:logical Default:F

Switch for a PDM-type model of runoff production.

PDM is the Probability Distributed Model (Moore, 1985), implemented in JULES following Clark and Gedney (2008).

TRUE

Use a PDM scheme.

FALSE

No PDM scheme.

See also

References:

• Moore, R. J. (1985), The probability-distributed principle and runoff production at point and basin scales, Hydrol. Sci. J., 30, 273-297.
• Clark and Gedney, 2008, Representing the effects of subgrid variability of soil moisture on runoff generation in a land surface model, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 113, D10111, doi:10.1029/2007JD008940.

Only used if l_pdm = TRUE

JULES_HYDROLOGY::dz_pdm

Type:real Default:1.0

The depth of soil considered by PDM (m).

A value of ~1m can be used.

JULES_HYDROLOGY::b_pdm

Type:real Default:1.0

Shape factor for the pdf.

Only used if l_top = TRUE

JULES_HYDROLOGY::zw_max

Type:real Default:6.0

The maximum allowed depth to the water table (m).

This is the depth to the bottom of an additional layer below the sm_levels soil layers and hence should be set to a value greater than SUM(dzsoil).

JULES_HYDROLOGY::ti_max

Type:real Default:10.0

The maximum possible value of the topographic index.

JULES_HYDROLOGY::ti_wetl

Type:real Default:1.5

A calibration parameter used in the calculation of the wetland fraction.

It is used to increment the “critical” value of the topographic index that is used to calculate the saturated fraction of the gridbox. It excludes locations with large values of the topographic index from the wetland fraction.

See Gedney and Cox (2003).