Articles | Volume 12, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019
Development and technical paper
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04 Apr 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 04 Apr 2019

A predictive algorithm for wetlands in deep time paleoclimate models

David J. Wilton, Marcus P. S. Badger, Euripides P. Kantzas, Richard D. Pancost, Paul J. Valdes, and David J. Beerling

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Methane is an important greenhouse gas naturally produced in wetlands (areas of land inundated with water). Models of the Earth's past climate need estimates of the amounts of methane wetlands produce; and in order to calculate those we need to model wetlands. In this work we develop a method for modelling the fraction of an area of the Earth that is wetland, repeat this over all the Earth's land surface and apply this to a study of the Earth as it was around 50 million years ago.