The site under study is the agricultural field belonging to the farm "Katharinentalerhof". The field is located north of the city of Pforzheim (48.920N, 8.700E). The central research site is a part of the Kraichgau region, southwest Germany. Simulations were performed for a generic crop, early covering crops (ECC) and late covering crops (LCC). We also considered different ECC-LCC ratios. Additionally, we tested the performance of the Noah-MP on latent heat flux (LE) data measured with the Eddy Covariance (EC) technique. For the simulation with Noah-MP, we used measured GVF and LAI data. The USGS land use dataset was used. The vegetation type index was set to 2 (Dryland cropland and Pasture) and soil type index to 4 (Silt loam). The model was forced with half-hourly weather data (wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, pressure, precipitation, downwelling longwave and shortwave radiation) measured from 2011 to 2012. Simulations were initialized with a spin up period of one year (2011) and run with a time step of 1800 seconds.