Impact of snow cover on soil temperature and its simulation in a boreal aspen forest

Snow cover has low thermal conductivity and high albedo, which have large impacts on the soil thermal regime and microclimate. Accurate simulations of snow and soil processes are critical to ecosystem and climate modelling. In this study, we developed a detailed snow and soil scheme in an ecosystem model EALCO to (1) improve the simulations of snow and soil thermal regimes and (2) investigate the effects of different model configurations and …