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LWF-BROOK90 [@hammel_charakterisierung_2001] is a soil vegetation atmosphere transport (SVAT) model to calculate daily evaporation (transpiration, interception, and soil evaporation) and soil water fluxes, along with soil water contents and soil water tension of a soil profile covered with vegetation. It is an upgraded version of the original BROOK90 model [@federer_sensitivity_2003; @federer_brook_2002], featuring additional parameterizations of the soil water retention and conductivity functions [@mualem_new_1976; @van_genuchten_closed-form_1980], and the option to take interannual variation of aboveground vegetation characteristics into account.
The package core function run_LWFB90()
runs the LWF-Brook90
by:
The model control options thereby let you select different functions for defining aboveground stand dynamics, phenology, and root length density depth distributions. Additionally, a set of pedotransfer functions is provided to derive hydraulic parameters from soil physical properties.
In this vignette, we will use meteorological and soil data from the longterm monitoring beech forest site SLB1 in the Solling mountains, Germany, which are available after loading the package.
To reproduce the examples, load 'LWFBrook90R' and the 'data.table' package:
library(LWFBrook90R) library(data.table)
As a first step, we need to set up the input objects for the central function
runLWFB90()
. Aside from meteorological and soil data, we need to define the
model control options and model parameter objects. The model options contain
basic information about the simulation and which sub-models to use (e.g. the
start and end dates of the simulation, the precipitation interval, the phenology
model, root length density depth distribution function, etc). The model
parameter object contains about 100 parameters, of which most are required to
run the model, but some only take effect if certain model control options are
selected (see vignette Model control options and
parameters). Two functions are available that
can be used to generate default lists of model options and parameters:
options_b90 <- set_optionsLWFB90() param_b90 <- set_paramLWFB90()
The created objects can be easily manipulated by reference, or simply by
assigning values to the option and parameter names directly in the function
calls. To look up the meanings of the various options and parameters see
?set_optionsLWFB90
and ?set_paramLWFB90
. The meaning and context of most
input parameters (and output variables) can also be looked up in the
documentation of the original BROOK90 model version on Tony Federer's
webpages, which is always a
recommended source of information when working with any BROOK90 version.
To run LWF-BROOK90 for the Solling beech site, we need to prepare the soil data
for the model. The data.frame slb1_soil
contains soil physical data of the
soil horizons, but not yet the hydraulic parameters that LWF-BROOK90 requires.
Fortunately, 'LWFBrook90R' comes with a set of pedotransfer functions to derive
the Mualem/van Genuchten (MvG) parameters of the soil water retention and
hydraulic conductivity functions. Here we use texture tabulated values from
Wessolek, Renger & Kaupenjohann [-@wessolek_bodenphysikalische_2009] and create
a data.frame containing the required MvG-parameters along with the soil physical
data:
soil <- cbind(slb1_soil, hydpar_wessolek_tab(texture = slb1_soil$texture))
Now we load meteorological dat, and then we are ready to perform a single-run simulation using the function run_LWFB90()
:
data("slb1_meteo") b90res <- run_LWFB90(options_b90 = options_b90, param_b90 = param_b90, climate = slb1_meteo, soil = soil)
b90res <- LWFBrook90R:::b90res
run_LWFB90()
thereby derives the daily stand properties (lai
, sai
,
height
, densef
, age
) and root distribution from parameters, and passes
climate, vegetation properties and parameters to the Fortran dynamic library.
After the simulation has finished, a list with model output (output
,
layer_output
) is returned, along with the model input (options_b90
,
param_b90
and derived daily vegetation properties standprop_daily
):
str(b90res, max.level = 1)
The list entry output
contains calendar variables ('yr', 'mo', 'da', 'doy'),
daily actual evaporation fluxes ('evap', 'tran', 'irvp', 'isvp', 'slvp',
'snvp'), potential evaporation and transpiration fluxes ('pint', 'pslvp', 'ptran'), soil water flux ('flow', 'vrfln') and state variables ('swat', 'awat', 'relawat'). For a detailed description of all output variables refer to the
help pages (?run_LWFB90
).
To plot the data, it is convenient to derive a Date
object from the calendar
variables. We use data.table syntax here:
b90res$output[, dates := as.Date(paste(yr, mo, da, sep = "-"))]
A second result set (list item layer_output
) contains daily soil moisture state
variables and belowground water fluxes of the individual soil layers.
We want to plot absolute soil water storage ('swati') down to a soil depth
of 100 cm, so we need to integrate b90res$layer_output$swati
over the 15
uppermost soil layers:
b90res$layer_output[, dates := as.Date(paste(yr, mo, da, sep = "-"))] swat100cm <- b90res$layer_output[which(nl <= 15), list(swat100cm = sum(swati)), by = dates]
Now we can plot soil water storage and transpiration:
oldpar <- par(no.readonly = T) par(mar=c(4.1,4.1,1.1,4.1), oma = c(1,1,1,1)) plot(b90res$output$dates, b90res$output$tran, type ='l', col = "green", ylab = "tran [mm]", xlab = "") par(new =TRUE) plot(swat100cm$dates, swat100cm$swat100cm, ylim=c(100, 350), type ='l', col = "blue", xaxt = "n", yaxt ="n", xlab= "", ylab = "") axis(4,pretty(c(100,350))) mtext("swat_100cm [mm]", side = 4, line =3) legend("bottom",inset = -0.25, legend = c("tran", "swat100cm"), col = c("green", "blue"), lty = 1, bty = "n", xpd = TRUE, horiz = TRUE, text.width = 100) par(oldpar)
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