“…Zeng et al (2005) highlighted undercanopy turbulent exchanges in arid and semiarid regions. A number of studies have dealt with the overestimated soil thermal conductivity by replacing the original parameterizations with adjusted schemes (Luo et al, 2017; Wang et al, 2013; Wang, Yang, et al, 2015; Yang et al, 2005; Zheng, van der Velde, Su, Wen, Wang, & Yang, 2017) and/or incorporating missing processes, such as soil organic matter (Chen et al, 2012; Zheng, van der Velde, Su, Wang, et al, 2015) and coarse‐fragment soils (Pan et al, 2017; Wu et al, 2018; Yi et al, 2018). The underestimation of the soil moisture is primarily attributed to an absence of stratification in the soil column (Yang et al, 2005), which generally exists in the QTP due to the accumulation of organic matter and plant roots in the top soils (Chen, Yang, et al, 2013; Qin, Wu, Wu, et al, 2017).…”