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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3603-2022
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Development and technical paper |
| 06 May 2022
| 06 May 2022
Explicitly modelling microtopography in permafrost landscapes in a land surface model (JULES vn5.4_microtopography)
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University
of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK
Eleanor J. Burke
Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Kjetil Schanke Aas
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1,
0371 Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Inge H. J. Althuizen
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research,
Nygårdsgaten 112, 5008 Bergen, Norway
Julia Boike
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine
Research (AWI), Telegrafenberg, 4473 Potsdam, Germany
Casper Tai Christiansen
Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource
Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Bernd Etzelmüller
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1,
0371 Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Thomas Friborg
Center for Permafrost, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource
Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hanna Lee
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research,
Nygårdsgaten 112, 5008 Bergen, Norway
Heather Rumbold
Met Office Hadley Centre, Fitzroy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
Rachael H. Turton
UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK
Sebastian Westermann
Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Sem Sælands vei 1,
0371 Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Sarah E. Chadburn
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University
of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QF, UK
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The Arctic has large areas of small mounds that are caused by ice lifting up the soil. Snow blown by wind gathers in hollows next to these mounds, insulating them in winter. The hollows tend to be wetter, and thus the soil absorbs more heat in summer. The warm wet soil in the hollows decomposes, releasing methane. We have made a model of this, and we have tested how it behaves and whether it looks like sites in Scandinavia and Siberia. Sometimes we get more methane than a model without mounds.
The Arctic has large areas of small mounds that are caused by ice lifting up the soil. Snow...
