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Drought Research Initiative

DRI Legacy

DRI endeavoured to provide tangible outcomes of its 5 year research effort to the broader scientific community and general public. This intention was addressed through focusing on several intiatives during the wind down of the network.

These efforts are listed below:

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SABAE-HW (Soil Atmosphere Boundary Accurate Evaluations of Heat and Water) v 1.5 Model

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Metadata file identifier

  • 747a3706-cd6d-11df-bebf-00219b106224

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    Language

  • eng

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    Contact
    Individual name

  • Allan Woodbury

    • Organisation name

  • Department of Civil Engineering University of Manitoba

    • Contact information
    Phone
    Voice

  • 1 204 474-9137

    • Facsimile

  • 1 204 474-7513

    • Address
    Delivery point

  • E1-368A Engineering Building 15 Gillson Street

    • City

  • Winnipeg

    • Administrative area

  • Manitoba

    • Postal code

  • R3T 5V6

    • Country

  • Canada

    • Electronic mail address

  • woodbur@cc.umanitoba.ca

    • Role

  • owner

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    Metadata date stamp

  • 2010-10-01

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    Metadata standard name

  • ISO 19115

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    Metadata standard version

  • ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006

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    Identification Information
    Citation
    Title

  • SABAE-HW (Soil Atmosphere Boundary Accurate Evaluations of Heat and Water) v 1.5 Model

    • Date
    Date

  • 2008-11-01

    • Date Type

  • revision

    • Abstract

  • The SABAE-HW code package is intended for simulating the vertical transfer of energy and water between the atmosphere and the land surface. Most of the land surface physics follow the modeling framework of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS). If anyone is interested in using this model and or wants access to the source code please contact the owner. Some essential attracting features of SABAE-HW model are: A comprehensive land surface scheme also fitted to cold hydrology. A detailed soil model for weather forced heat and water transfers. Flexible in site modeling thanks to the user's specified depth and soil layers. Accurate for temperature and liquid and frozen moistures solution profiles. Coupled with the saturated zone through the optional choice of a water table boundary condition. Efficient in computational time as supported by a compact implenentation of the powerful GMRES solver. Convenient for teaching, research and consultancy in many soil related topics such as agriculture, forecasting, groundwater modeling, thermal energy, construction, climate change, etc. Portable as a light package over different platforms (Windows, Linux and Unix). User-friendly thanks to the variables' short definitions embedded in input and output files. Applications include: Modeling and simulation of heat and water transfers in soil columns. Assessment of the recharge to the groundwater table. Assessment of the actual large scale evaporation. Computer aided soil moisture and temperature forecasts for crops' planting management. Determination of the Antecedent Precipitation Index (API) for surface runoff and flood forecasts. Estimation of the soil strength and risk of terrain and river bank sliding. Investigation of the climate change impact on soil moisture and its implications on agriculture and infrastructure. The meteorological forcing inputs required by SABAE-HW are the incoming long wave and short wave solar radiations, precipitation, wind speed, air temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative or specific humidity. The model also needs some simulation parameters and initializations of a number of prognostic variables, soil characteristics and vegetation parameters. The output from SABAE-HW includes the surface, canopy and snow temperatures; soil layers temperatures and liquid and frozen water contents; surface heat fluxes, net absorbed short and long wave radiations, and sensible and latent heat fluxes;water evaporation, water over canopy, pond and bottom drainage; snow accumulation and snow melt.

    • Descriptive keywords
    Keyword

  • Land Surface > Frozen Ground

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Frozen Ground > Soil Temperature

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Land Temperature

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Land Temperature > Land Surface Temperature

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils > Soil Heat Budget

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils > Soil Infiltration

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils > Soil Temperature

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Surface Radiative Properties

    • Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice

    • Keyword

  • Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Melt

    • Keyword

  • Land Surface > Soils > Soil Moisture/Water Content

    • Thesaurus name
    Title

  • GCMD

    • Date
    Date

  • 2007-04-01

    • Date Type

  • publication

    • Language

  • eng

    • Topic category

  • environment

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    Distribution information
    Distributor
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name

  • DRI Data Legacy

    • Contact information
    Online resource
    Linkage

  • http://www.drinetwork.ca/

    • Role

  • Distributor

    • Transfer options
    Units of distribution

  • Mb

    • Transfer size (Mb)

  • 3

    • On-line resource
    Linkage

  • http://odin.meteo.mcgill.ca/dri_download/sabae-hw_v1.5.zip

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