Articles | Volume 7, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2747-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2747-2014
Development and technical paper
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21 Nov 2014
Development and technical paper |  | 21 Nov 2014

Modelling the role of fires in the terrestrial carbon balance by incorporating SPITFIRE into the global vegetation model ORCHIDEE – Part 1: simulating historical global burned area and fire regimes

C. Yue, P. Ciais, P. Cadule, K. Thonicke, S. Archibald, B. Poulter, W. M. Hao, S. Hantson, F. Mouillot, P. Friedlingstein, F. Maignan, and N. Viovy

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AR by Chao Yue on behalf of the Authors (17 Sep 2014)  Author's response    Manuscript
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Oct 2014) by David Lawrence
AR by Chao Yue on behalf of the Authors (21 Oct 2014)  Author's response    Manuscript
Short summary
ORCHIDEE-SPITFIRE model could moderately capture the decadal trend and variation of burned area during the 20th century, and the spatial and temporal patterns of contemporary vegetation fires. The model has a better performance in simulating fires for regions dominated by climate-driven fires, such as boreal forests. However, it has limited capability to reproduce the infrequent but important large fires in different ecosystems, where urgent model improvement is needed in the future.