Guo‐Yue Niu

Improving snow simulations through improved representations of vegetation conditions: insights from high resolution simulations over California

Abstract. Most hydrological models underestimate snow water equivalent (SWE) in the mountainous western US. Key limitations may be due to coarse resolution precipitation input and inadequate representations of snow-vegetation interactions. Vegetation affects snow dynamics through...

Why Does a Shallow Land Model Underestimate the Dryland Drying Trends?

Abstract Most land surface models (LSMs) and macroscale hydrological models with shallow soil profiles underestimate observed terrestrial water storage (TWS) declines across global drylands. Here, we incorporated a recently developed global data set of depth to bedrock with spati...