Importance of Soil Claypans on Latent Energy Patterns.

It is well known that surface energy fluxes are important outputs from land surface models. Also well known is that soil water has a significant effect on these modeled surface energy fluxes.  An important element that affects soil water storage is soil texture. Unfortunately, changes in soil texture with depth are not typically taken into account for some land surface models.  This lack of detail in soil texture information with depth has the potential to significantly impact surface energy flux outputs.  The purpose of this research was to investigate how surface energy fluxes change with depth changes in claypans.