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Lars Nieradzik

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The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1 : Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

Author

  • Sam S. Rabin
  • Joe R. Melton
  • Gitta Lasslop
  • Dominique Bachelet
  • Matthew Forrest
  • Stijn Hantson
  • Jed O. Kaplan
  • Jian-Fang Li
  • Stéphane Mangeon
  • Daniel S. Ward
  • Chao Yue
  • Vivek K. Arora
  • Thomas Hickler
  • Silvia Kloster
  • Wolfgang Knorr
  • Lars Nieradzik
  • Allan Spessa
  • Gerd A. Folberth
  • Tim Sheehan
  • Apostolos Voulgarakis
  • Douglas I. Kelley
  • I. Colin Prentice
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Sandy Harrison
  • Almut Arneth
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Summary, in English

The important role of fire in regulating vegetation community composition and contributions to emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols make it a critical component of dynamic global vegetation models and Earth system models. Over 2 decades of development, a wide variety of model structures and mechanisms have been designed and incorporated into global fire models, which have been linked to different vegetation models. However, there has not yet been a systematic examination of how these different strategies contribute to model performance. Here we describe the structure of the first phase of the Fire Model Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), which for the first time seeks to systematically compare a number of models. By combining a standardized set of input data and model experiments with a rigorous comparison of model outputs to each other and to observations, we will improve the understanding of what drives vegetation fire, how it can best be simulated, and what new or improved observational data could allow better constraints on model behavior. In this paper, we introduce the fire models used in the first phase of FireMIP, the simulation protocols applied, and the benchmarking system used to evaluate the models. We have also created supplementary tables that describe, in thorough mathematical detail, the structure of each model.

Department/s

  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate

Publishing year

2017-03-17

Language

English

Pages

1175-1197

Publication/Series

Geoscientific Model Development

Volume

10

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Copernicus GmbH

Topic

  • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1991-959X