dc.contributor.author | Nakhavali, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Friedlingstein, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Lauerwald, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Tang, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Chadburn, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Camino-Serrano, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Guenet, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Harper, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Walmsley, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Peichl, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Gielen, B | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-07T14:29:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | Current global models of the carbon (C) cycle consider only vertical gas exchanges between terrestrial or oceanic reservoirs and the atmosphere, thus not considering the lateral transport of carbon from the continents to the oceans. Therefore, those models implicitly consider all of the C which is not respired to the atmosphere to be stored on land and hence overestimate the land C sink capability. A model that represents the whole continuum from atmosphere to land and into the ocean would provide a better understanding of the Earth's C cycle and hence more reliable historical or future projections. A first and critical step in that direction is to include processes representing the production and export of dissolved organic carbon in soils. Here we present an original representation of dissolved organic C (DOC) processes in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES-DOCM) that integrates a representation of DOC production in terrestrial ecosystems based on the incomplete decomposition of organic matter, DOC decomposition within the soil column, and DOC export to the river network via leaching. The model performance is evaluated in five specific sites for which observations of soil DOC concentration are available. Results show that the model is able to reproduce the DOC concentration and controlling processes, including leaching to the riverine system, which is fundamental for integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Future work should include the fate of exported DOC in the river system as well as DIC and POC export from soil. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research leading to these results received
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant
agreement no. 643052 (C-CASCADES project). We want to thank
Altaf Arain, Tim Moore, and Gerd Glexiner for providing the
DOC measurements. Ronny Lauerwald received funding from
the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement no. 703813 for the Marie
Sklodowska-Curie European Individual Fellowship “C-Leak”.
Jing Tang is financed by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action
Individual Fellowship (MABVOC: 707187) and supported by the
Danish National Research Foundation (CENPERM DNRF100).
Marta Camino-Serrano acknowledges funding from the European
Research Council Synergy grant ERC-2013-SyG-610028
IMBALANCE-P. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 11, pp. 593 - 609 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5194/gmd-11-593-2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31936 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | European Geosciences Union (EGU) / Copernicus Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Author(s) 2018. Open access. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | Representation of dissolved organic carbon in the JULES land surface model (vn4.4-JULES-DOCM) | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2018-03-07T14:29:21Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1991-959X | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from EGU via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Geoscientific Model Development | en_GB |