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From this paper (MIROC4h—A New High-Resolution Atmosphere-Ocean Coupled General Circulation Model):
2.2 Land-surface component The land-surface component is a land model named the Minimal Advanced Treatments of Surface Interaction and RunOff (MATSIRO; Takata et al. 2003). The horizontal grid structure of the model is a 2 × 3 tiling of each atmospheric component grid box providing a resolution of approximately 0.28125◦ (zonal) × 0.1875◦ (meridional). The model has one canopy layer, five soil layers, and a variable number of snow layers (0–3) depending on the snow amount. The thickness of the soil layers from the top are 0.05, 0.20, 0.75, 1.00, and 2.00 m. The canopy and surface skin layers do not have a heat capacity. In MATSIRO, the energy and water exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere are represented over the prognosticated thermal and hydrological conditions of snow and soil. Surface fluxes are calculated using vegetation types classified into 10 categories in the snow-free and snow-covered sections respectively. The runoff flux is put into the river routing component described in the next Subsection. The prognostic variables of MATSIRO are canopy temperature, surface temperature of snow-free and snow-covered areas, canopy water content, snow amount, snow temperature, snow albedo, soil temperature, soil moisture content, and frozen soil moisture content. ...Note that lakes are dealt with by the sea-ice and ocean components.
2.2 Land-surface component The land-surface component is a land model named the Minimal Advanced Treatments of Surface Interaction and RunOff (MATSIRO; Takata et al. 2003). The horizontal grid structure of the model is a 2 × 3 tiling of each atmospheric component grid box providing a resolution of approximately 0.28125◦ (zonal) × 0.1875◦ (meridional). The model has one canopy layer, five soil layers, and a variable number of snow layers (0–3) depending on the snow amount. The thickness of the soil layers from the top are 0.05, 0.20, 0.75, 1.00, and 2.00 m. The canopy and surface skin layers do not have a heat capacity. In MATSIRO, the energy and water exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere are represented over the prognosticated thermal and hydrological conditions of snow and soil. Surface fluxes are calculated using vegetation types classified into 10 categories in the snow-free and snow-covered sections respectively. The runoff flux is put into the river routing component described in the next Subsection. The prognostic variables of MATSIRO are canopy temperature, surface temperature of snow-free and snow-covered areas, canopy water content, snow amount, snow temperature, snow albedo, soil temperature, soil moisture content, and frozen soil moisture content.
...Note that lakes are dealt with by the sea-ice and ocean components.
The following is a map depicting the Great Lakes as being treated as oceans in the model (shown by purple bathymetry depths of <500m).
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