Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-771-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-771-2018
Model description paper
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02 Mar 2018
Model description paper |  | 02 Mar 2018

Simulating damage for wind storms in the land surface model ORCHIDEE-CAN (revision 4262)

Yi-Ying Chen, Barry Gardiner, Ferenc Pasztor, Kristina Blennow, James Ryder, Aude Valade, Kim Naudts, Juliane Otto, Matthew J. McGrath, Carole Planque, and Sebastiaan Luyssaert

Model code and software

ORCHIDEE-CAN (revision 4262) Chen, Yi-Ying, et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1109749

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Short summary
The inclusion of process-based wind-throw damage simulation in Earth system models has been hampered by the big-leaf approach, which cannot provide the canopy structure information that is required. We adapted the physics from ForestGALES to calculate CWS on large scales. The new model included several numerically efficient solutions, such as handling the landscape heterogeneity, downscaling spatially and temporally aggregated wind fields, and downscaling storm damage within the 2500 km2 pixels.