Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0

Boas, Theresa; Bogena, Heye; Grünwald, Thomas; Heinesch, Bernard; Ryu, Dongryeol; Schmidt, Marius; Vereecken, Harry; Western, Andrew; Hendricks Franssen, Harrie-Jan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-573-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-573-2021

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-573-2021

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

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Development and technical paper

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28 Jan 2021

Development and technical paper |

| 28 Jan 2021

Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0

Theresa Boas, Heye Bogena, Thomas Grünwald, Bernard Heinesch, Dongryeol Ryu, Marius Schmidt, Harry Vereecken, Andrew Western, and Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

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RC1: 'Review of "Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0"', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', Theresa Boas, 18 Sep 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer comments for Boas et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 17 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', Theresa Boas, 05 Oct 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Theresa Boas on behalf of the Authors (28 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (08 Dec 2020) by David Lawrence

AR by Theresa Boas on behalf of the Authors (11 Dec 2020)

Short summary

In this study we were able to significantly improve CLM5 model performance for European cropland sites by adding a winter wheat representation, specific plant parameterizations for important cash crops, and a cover-cropping and crop rotation subroutine to its crop module. Our modifications should be applied in future studies of CLM5 to improve regional yield predictions and to better understand large-scale impacts of agricultural management on carbon, water, and energy fluxes.