Forcing the Global Fire Emissions Database burned-area dataset into the Community Land Model version 5.0: impacts on carbon and water fluxes at high latitudes

Seo, Hocheol; Kim, Yeonjoo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4699-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 16

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4699-2023

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4699-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 16

Model evaluation paper

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22 Aug 2023

Model evaluation paper |

| 22 Aug 2023

Forcing the Global Fire Emissions Database burned-area dataset into the Community Land Model version 5.0: impacts on carbon and water fluxes at high latitudes

Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim

Data sets

Global Fire Emissions Database, Version 4.1 (GFEDv4) J. T. Randerson, G. R. van der Werf, L. Giglio, G. J. Collatz, and P. S. Kasibhatla https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1293

CARVE: Alaskan Fire Emissions Database (AKFED), 2001-2013 S. Veraverbeke, B. M. Rogers, and J. T. Randerson https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1282

GEOS-Carb CASA-GFED 3-hourly Ecosystem Exchange Fluxes 0.5 degree x 0.625 degree V3 Lesley Ott https://doi.org/10.5067/VQPRALE26L20

Model code and software

Global Fire Emissions Database burned-area dataset into Community Land Model version 5.0 - Biogeochemistry Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7483115

Short summary

Wildfire is a crucial factor in carbon and water fluxes on the Earth system. About 2.1 Pg of carbon is released into the atmosphere by wildfires annually. Because the fire processes are still limitedly represented in land surface models, we forced the daily GFED4 burned area into the land surface model over Alaska and Siberia. The results with the GFED4 burned area significantly improved the simulated carbon emissions and net ecosystem exchange compared to the default simulation.