2018 Volume 74 Issue 5 Pages I_61-I_66
To solve global cycles of water, energy and carbon, most global models have applied radiative transfer scheme which expresses vegetation as a plate. To consider anthropogenic activities on forest and vegetation-climate feedback effect in boreal regions, it is necessary to express forest structure in radiative transfer scheme more precisely. In this study, through a sensitivity experiment by using high-resolution-three-dimensional radiative transfer model, we analysed the importance of five parameters related to forest structure for radiative transfer calculation.
As a result, we show that the non-linear relationship between radiative transfer parameters and canopy coverage should be treated carefully and propose canopy length should be used as a new parameter. This study delivers important information to include data of forest structure obtained near future in global radiative transfer scheme.
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