Oil palm modelling in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT

Xu, Yidi; Ciais, Philippe; Yu, Le; Li, Wei; Chen, Xiuzhi; Zhang, Haicheng; Yue, Chao; Kanniah, Kasturi; Cracknell, Arthur P.; Gong, Peng

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4573-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4573-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4573-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 7

Model description paper

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23 Jul 2021

Model description paper |

| 23 Jul 2021

Oil palm modelling in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT

Yidi Xu, Philippe Ciais, Le Yu, Wei Li, Xiuzhi Chen, Haicheng Zhang, Chao Yue, Kasturi Kanniah, Arthur P. Cracknell, and Peng Gong

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4573-2021-supplement

Data sets

CRUNCEP dataset N. Viovy ftp://nacp.ornl.gov/synthesis/2009/frescati/temp/land_use_change/original/readme.htm

HWSD v1.2 data F. Nachtergaele et al. http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/soils/HWSD Viewer/HWSD_RASTER.zip

Model code and software

ORCHIDEE-MICT-OP-r6850 Y. Xu https://forge.ipsl.jussieu.fr/ orchidee/wiki/GroupActivities/CodeAvalaibilityPublication/ ORCHIDEE-MICT-OP-r6850

Short summary

In this study, we implemented the specific morphology, phenology and harvest process of oil palm in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE-MICT. The improved model generally reproduces the same leaf area index, biomass density and life cycle fruit yield as observations. This explicit representation of oil palm in a global land surface model offers a useful tool for understanding the ecological processes of oil palm growth and assessing the environmental impacts of oil palm plantations.