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bucket: a standalone construct

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bucket1 CONSTRUCTBucket modelMANABE · SOIL WATER

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Climate & hydrology

A simple reservoir model of soil moisture

In climate and land-surface modelling, the bucket model treats the soil column as a single reservoir of fixed capacity that fills with rainfall and empties through evaporation and runoff: the land stores water up to a limit and spills the excess, like a bucket. Manabe's 1969 Climate and the ocean circulation introduced the scheme to represent surface hydrology in a global circulation model. The referent is a lumped water-balance reservoir for the land surface, measured by soil-moisture storage and runoff, unrelated to a hash table's slot or a data analyst's binning beyond the shared container image.[1]

Unit
Soil-moisture storage in a fixed-capacity surface reservoir
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Tracked by water balance (precipitation in, evaporation and runoff out) up to the bucket's capacity

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References

  1. Manabe, S. (1969). Climate and the ocean circulation: I. The atmospheric circulation and the hydrology of the earth's surface. Monthly Weather Review, 97(11), 739–774. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1969)097<0739:CATOC>2.3.CO;2

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