Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2111-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2111-2018
Model description paper
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08 Jun 2018
Model description paper |  | 08 Jun 2018

ORCHIMIC (v1.0), a microbe-mediated model for soil organic matter decomposition

Ye Huang, Bertrand Guenet, Philippe Ciais, Ivan A. Janssens, Jennifer L. Soong, Yilong Wang, Daniel Goll, Evgenia Blagodatskaya, and Yuanyuan Huang

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ORCHIMIC is a modeling effort trying to improve the representation of SOC dynamics in Earth system models (ESM). It has a structure that can be easily incorporated into CENTURY-based ESMs. In ORCHIMIC, key microbial dynamics (i.e., enzyme production, enzymatic decomposition and microbial dormancy) are included. The ORCHIMIC model can also reproduce the observed temporal dynamics of respiration and priming effects; thus it is an improved tool for climate projections and SOC response predictions.
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