Articles | Volume 15, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2813-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2813-2022
Model evaluation paper
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06 Apr 2022
Model evaluation paper |  | 06 Apr 2022

Assessing methane emissions for northern peatlands in ORCHIDEE-PEAT revision 7020

Elodie Salmon, Fabrice Jégou, Bertrand Guenet, Line Jourdain, Chunjing Qiu, Vladislav Bastrikov, Christophe Guimbaud, Dan Zhu, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Peylin, Sébastien Gogo, Fatima Laggoun-Défarge, Mika Aurela, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, Jiquan Chen, Bogdan H. Chojnicki, Housen Chu, Colin W. Edgar, Eugenie S. Euskirchen, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Krzysztof Fortuniak, David Holl, Janina Klatt, Olaf Kolle, Natalia Kowalska, Lars Kutzbach, Annalea Lohila, Lutz Merbold, Włodzimierz Pawlak, Torsten Sachs, and Klaudia Ziemblińska

Data sets

Documentation du SI SNO-Tourbières (SNO-T) Doc SNO-T https://sourcesup.renater.fr/www/si-snot/

Sites list European Fluxes Database Cluster http://www.europe-fluxdata.eu/home/sites-list

FLUXNET ORNL DAAC http://fluxnet.ornl.gov/

Model code and software

ORCHIDEE_MICT-PEAT-CH4 r 7020 E. Salmon https://doi.org/10.14768/d385219a-787a-439c-b128-2e2d30a21f87

ORCHIDEE Data Assimilation Systems V. Bastrikov https://orchidas.lsce.ipsl.fr

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Short summary
A methane model that features methane production and transport by plants, the ebullition process and diffusion in soil, oxidation to CO2, and CH4 fluxes to the atmosphere has been embedded in the ORCHIDEE-PEAT land surface model, which includes an explicit representation of northern peatlands. This model, ORCHIDEE-PCH4, was calibrated and evaluated on 14 peatland sites. Results show that the model is sensitive to temperature and substrate availability over the top 75 cm of soil depth.