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We present a new model system, which facilitates scaling of ecosystem processes from the site to regional simulation domains. The new framework LandscapeDNDC—partly based on the biogeochemical site scale model DNDC—inherits a series of new features with regard to process descriptions, model structure and data I/O functionality. LandscapeDNDC incorporates different vegetation types and management systems for simulating carbon, nitrogen and water related biosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere fluxes in forest, arable and grassland ecosystems and allows the dynamic simulation of land use changes. The modeling concept divides ecosystems into six substates (canopy air chemistry, microclimate, physiology, water cycle, vegetation structure, and soil biogeochemistry) and provides alternative modules dealing with these substates. The model can be applied on the site scale, as well as for three-dimensional regional simulations. For regional applications LandscapeDNDC integrates all grid cells synchronously forward in time. This allows easy coupling to other spatially distributed models (e.g. for hydrology or atmospheric chemistry) and efficient two-way exchange of states. This paper describes the fundamental design concept of the model and its object-oriented software implementation. Two example applications are presented. First, calculation of a nitrous oxide emission inventory from agricultural soils for the State of Saxaony (Germany), including data preprocessing of the regional model input data. The computational effort for the LandscapeDNDC preprocessing and simulation could be speed up by a factor of almost 100 compared to the approach using the original DNDC version 9.3. Calculated N2O emissions for Saxony with LandscapeDNDC (2693 t N2O–N/a) were compared with the original DNDC model (2725 t N2O–N/a), the IPCC Tier I methodology (1107 t N2O–N/a), and the German National Inventory Report (equal to IPCC Tier II, 2100 t N2O–N/a). The second example illustrates the capabilities of LandscapeDNDC for building a fully coupled three-dimensional model system on the landscape scale. Therefore we coupled the biogeochemical and plant growth calculations to a hydrological transport model and demonstrate the transport of nitrogen along a virtual hillslope and associated formation of indirect nitrous oxide emissions.
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The authors thank the European Commission funded research project NitroEurope IP (contract 017841) and the German Helmholtz Society for supporting this work within the ENTRANCE project as well as the Robert Bosch Foundation Germany for support. The authors would like to acknowledge the excellent help and assistance of the bureau of environment, agriculture and geology (LfULG) of the state of Saxony for providing input data for the regionalisation study.
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Haas, E., Klatt, S., Fröhlich, A. et al. LandscapeDNDC: a process model for simulation of biosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere exchange processes at site and regional scale. Landscape Ecol 28, 615–636 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-012-9772-x
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