Simulating the Energy and Water Fluxes from Two Alkaline Desert Ecosystems over Central Asia

Table 4

Model performance for simulating , , and , indicated by coefficient of determination (), slope (), intercept (), and root mean square error (RMSE, W m⁻²) of linear regressions between model and observed data at the KZ-Ara site and the KZ-Bal site.

Variables	Reference model (S0)				Refined roughness length (S1)
		RMSE				RMSE
Site: KZ-Ara
	0.97	63.6	1.12	28.48	0.96	39.5	0.99	7.12
	0.36	41.15	0.74	9.66	0.61	33.3	1.02	4.67
	0.89	121.24	1.86	56.6	0.86	58.47	1.06	46.93
Site: KZ-Bal
	0.98	43.86	1.04	22.7	0.98	33.07	0.96	13.9
	0.9	46.42	0.82	30.57	0.92	43.11	0.89	28.67
	0.7	77.38	1.58	50.87	0.67	37.97	0.76	29.08