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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-294
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2022-294
Submitted as: model evaluation paper
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06 Jan 2023
Submitted as: model evaluation paper |  | 06 Jan 2023
Status: this preprint is currently under review for the journal GMD.

Global Fire Emissions Database burned-area dataset into Community Land Model version 5.0 – Biogeochemistry: Impacts on carbon and water fluxes at high latitudes

Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim

Abstract. Wildfires influence not only ecosystems but also carbon and water fluxes on Earth. Yet, the fire processes are still limitedly represented in land surface models (LSMs), thus simulating the occurrence and consequences of fires. Especially, the performance of LSMs in estimating burned areas across high northern latitudes is poor. In this study, we employed the daily burned areas from the satellite-based global fire emission database (version 4) (GFED4) into the community land model (version 5.0) with a biogeochemistry module (CLM5-BGC) to identify the effects of accurate fire simulation on carbon and water fluxes over Alaska and Eastern Siberia. The results showed that the simulated carbon emissions with the burned areas from GFED4 (i.e., experimental run) were significantly improved in comparison to the open-loop run (i.e., default run), which resulted in opposite trends of the net ecosystem exchange for 2004, 2005, and 2009 over Alaska between the open-loop and experimental runs. Also, we identified carbon emissions were more sensitive to the wildfires in Alaska than in Eastern Siberia, which could be explained by the vegetation distribution (i.e., tree cover ratio). In terms of water fluxes, canopy transpiration in Eastern Siberia was relatively insensitive to the size of burned area due to the interaction between leaf size and soil moisture. This study uses CLM5-BGC to improve our understanding of the role of burned areas in eco-hydrological processes at high latitudes. Furthermore, we suggest that the improved approach will be required for better predicting future carbon fluxes and climate change.

Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim

Status: final response (author comments only)

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • CC1: 'Comment on gmd-2022-294', Sarah Gallup, 09 Jan 2023
  • RC1: 'Comment on gmd-2022-294', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Feb 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on gmd-2022-294', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Feb 2023
  • AC1: 'Response to RC1, RC2, and CC1', Yeonjoo Kim, 02 Apr 2023

Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim

Hocheol Seo and Yeonjoo Kim

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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 applied 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.