redistribute_moisture

Author:

Keith Cherkauer

Date:

Septembet 2, 1997

Description:

This subroutine redistributes soil moisture between frozen, thawed, and normal soil moisture layers, to compensate for the advance and retreat of the freezing and thawing fronts. Ice in the frozen layers is melted and redistributed as liquid water - it is refrozen in later routines.

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Input Variables:

Variable	Type	Units	Description
layer	layer_data_struct *	N/A	Layer data structure double moist_thaw (mm) double moist_froz (mm) double moist (mm) double ice (mm)
fdepth	double *	m	Freezing and thawing front depths for current time step
max_moist	double *	mm	Maximum moisture content for current layer
old_fdepth	double *	m	Freezing front depth for previous time step
old_tdepth	double *	m	Thawing front depth for previous time step
depth	double *	m	Soil layer depths
Nlayer	int	N/A	Number of soil layers

Output Variables:

Variable	Type	Units	Description
layer	layer_data_struct *	N/A	Layer data structure double moist_thaw (mm) double moist_froz (mm) double moist (mm) double ice (mm) double ice (mm)

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