LAMASUS researchers Thi Lan Anh Dinh and Ronny Lauerwald published an article in Geoscientific Model Development

14 August 2024

LAMASUS researchers Thi Lan Anh Dinh, Ronny Lauerwald and colleagues have published a new paper on

“Impacts of land-use change on biospheric carbon: an oriented benchmark using ORCHIDEE land surface model”

In short, the paper describes

• The performance of Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVM; ORCHIDEE) in reproducing Land Use Change impacts on biospheric carbon stocks over Europe
• Results indicate agreement between the model and observed spatial patterns and temporal trends; however, the model underestimates carbon gains for cropland-to-grassland and carbon losses for grassland-to-cropland conversions
• This may be due to bias arising form soil erosion, which is not fully captured in the ORCHIDEE models
• The study provides a benchmark for assessing DGVMs against observations and explores its potential in studying the impact of land use change on soil organic carbon stocks.