Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3905-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3905-2020
Development and technical paper
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01 Sep 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 01 Sep 2020

The importance of management information and soil moisture representation for simulating tillage effects on N2O emissions in LPJmL5.0-tillage

Femke Lutz, Stephen Del Grosso, Stephen Ogle, Stephen Williams, Sara Minoli, Susanne Rolinski, Jens Heinke, Jetse J. Stoorvogel, and Christoph Müller

Model code and software

LPJmL5.0-tillage: Original source code F. Lutz, C. Müller, J. Heinke, S. Minoli, and S. Rolinski https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3592381

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Previous findings have shown deviations between the LPJmL5.0-tillage model and results from meta-analyses on global estimates of tillage effects on N2O emissions. By comparing model results with observational data of four experimental sites and outputs from field-scale DayCent model simulations, we show that advancing information on agricultural management, as well as the representation of soil moisture dynamics, improves LPJmL5.0-tillage and the estimates of tillage effects on N2O emissions.