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Coupling a terrestrial biogeochemical model to the common land model

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A terrestrial biogeochemical model (CASACNP) was coupled to a land surface model (the Common Land Model, CoLM) to simulate the dynamics of carbon substrate in soil and its limitation on soil respiration. The combined model, CoLM_CASACNP, was able to predict long-term carbon sources and sinks that CoLM alone could not. The coupled model was tested using measurements of belowground respiration and surface fluxes from two forest ecosystems. The combined model simulated reasonably well the diurnal and seasonal variations of net ecosystem carbon exchange, as well as seasonal variation in the soil respiration rate of both the forest sites chosen for this study. However, the agreement between model simulations and actual measurements was poorer under dry conditions. The model should be tested against more measurements before being applied globally to investigate the feedbacks between the carbon cycle and climate change.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China

    Xiaoying Shi  (施小英)

  2. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China

    Jiafu Mao  (毛嘉富)

  3. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA

    Xiaoying Shi  (施小英) & Jiafu Mao  (毛嘉富)

  4. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia

    Yingping Wang  (王应平)

  5. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    Yongjiu Dai  (戴永久)

  6. South China Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China

    Xuli Tang  (唐旭利)

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Shi, X., Mao, J., Wang, Y. et al. Coupling a terrestrial biogeochemical model to the common land model. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 28, 1129–1142 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-010-0131-z

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