Articles | Volume 17, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2929-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2929-2024
Model description paper
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16 Apr 2024
Model description paper |  | 16 Apr 2024

Modeling boreal forest soil dynamics with the microbially explicit soil model MIMICS+ (v1.0)

Elin Ristorp Aas, Heleen A. de Wit, and Terje K. Berntsen

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By including microbial processes in soil models, we learn how the soil system interacts with its environment and responds to climate change. We present a soil process model, MIMICS+, which is able to reproduce carbon stocks found in boreal forest soils better than a conventional land model. With the model we also find that when adding nitrogen, the relationship between soil microbes changes notably. Coupling the model to a vegetation model will allow for further study of these mechanisms.