Research advance in process and modeling of water transfer in soil-plant-atmosphere continuum
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DOI:10.7606/j.issn.1000-7601.2013.01.44
Key Words: soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC)  water transfer  modeling  process
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XU Ligang State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China 
XU Jiaxing State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China 
DONG Lei State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China 
FENG Wenjuan State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China 
JIANG Jiahu State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, Nanjing 210008, China 
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Abstract:
      This paper introduces the theory of water transfer among the interfaces of water cycle process and the concept and development of soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC), and illustrates the main research achiev ements at home and abroad. Based on the investigation of various typical SPAC mo dels, a systematic introduction and comparison about their basic structures, app lication scopes, main research objects, advantages and limitations are made. The difficulties and problems in the interaction process and simulation of soil-pl ant-atmosphere system are also proposed. It will be the main challenge in the fu t ure to deal with the complex relationship between underlying surface and soil-pl ant-atmosphere system as well as the problems of scale conversion. Furthermore, it will be an important research direction to achieve accurate and simplified mo deling of water transfer process among different interfaces by means of paramete r optimization in the models.