A predictive algorithm for wetlands in deep  time paleoclimate models

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 4

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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RC1: 'comments on Wilton et al. GMDD', Anonymous Referee #1, 01 Dec 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #1 Comment', David Wilton, 14 Dec 2018
RC2: 'Review of Wilton et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 21 Dec 2018
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee #2 comment', David Wilton, 18 Jan 2019

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AR by David Wilton on behalf of the Authors (05 Mar 2019)

Short summary

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.