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ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0), a new process-based agro-land surface model: model description and evaluation over Europe

X. Wu
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E. Moors
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W. Jans
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J. Elbers
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Tiphaine Tallec
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A. Ligne
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D. Ripoche
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The response of crops to changing climate and atmospheric CO 2 concentration ([CO 2 ]) could have large effects on food production, and impact carbon, water, and energy fluxes, causing feedbacks to the climate. To simulate the response of temperate crops to changing climate and [CO 2 ], which accounts for the specific phenology of crops mediated by management practice, we describe here the development of a process-oriented terrestrial biogeochemical model named ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0), which integrates a generic crop phenology and harvest module, and a very simple pa-rameterization of nitrogen fertilization, into the land surface model (LSM) ORCHIDEEv196, in order to simulate bio-physical and biochemical interactions in croplands, as well as plant productivity and harvested yield. The model is applicable for a range of temperate crops, but is tested here using maize and winter wheat, with the phenological parameteriza-tions of two European varieties originating from the STICS agronomical model. We evaluate the ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0) model against eddy covariance and biometric measurements at seven winter wheat and maize sites in Europe. The specific ecosystem variables used in the evaluation are CO 2 fluxes (net ecosystem exchange, NEE), latent heat, and sensible heat fluxes. Additional measurements of leaf area index (LAI) and aboveground biomass and yield are used as well. Evaluation results revealed that ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0) reproduced the observed timing of crop development stages and the amplitude of the LAI changes. This is in contrast to ORCHIDEEv196 where, by default, crops have the same phenology as grass. A halving of the root mean square error for LAI from 2.38 ± 0.77 to 1.08 ± 0.34 m 2 m −2 was obtained when ORCHIDEEv196 and ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0) were compared across the seven study sites. Improved crop Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union. 858 X. Wu et al.: ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0), a new process-based agro-land surface model phenology and carbon allocation led to a good match between modeled and observed aboveground biomass (with a normalized root mean squared error (NRMSE) of 11.0-54.2 %), crop yield, daily carbon and energy fluxes (with a NRMSE of ∼ 9.0-20.1 and ∼ 9.4-22.3 % for NEE), and sensible and latent heat fluxes. The simulated yields for winter wheat and maize from ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0) showed a good match with the simulated results from STICS for three sites with available crop yield observations, where the average NRMSE was ∼ 8.8 %. The model data misfit for energy fluxes were within the uncertainties of the measurements , which themselves showed an incomplete energy balance closure within the range 80.6-86.3 %. The remaining discrepancies between the modeled and observed LAI and other variables at specific sites were partly attributable to un-realistic representations of management events by the model. ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0) has the ability to capture the spatial gradients of carbon and energy-related variables, such as gross primary productivity, NEE, and sensible and latent heat fluxes across the sites in Europe, which is an important requirement for future spatially explicit simulations. Further improvement of the model, with an explicit parameterization of nutritional dynamics and management, is expected to improve its predictive ability to simulate croplands in an Earth system model.
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hal-01587289 , version 1 (27-10-2020)

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X. Wu, N. Vuichard, P. Ciais, N. Viovy, N. de Noblet-Ducoudré, et al.. ORCHIDEE-CROP (v0), a new process-based agro-land surface model: model description and evaluation over Europe. Geoscientific Model Development, 2016, 9 (2), pp.857 - 873. ⟨10.5194/gmd-9-857-2016⟩. ⟨hal-01587289⟩
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