Impact model: CLM5.0

CLM5.0 is the latest in a series of land models developed through the CESM project

ISIMIP2b

Person responsible for model simulations in this simulation round

Guoyong Leng: guoyong.leng@ouce.ox.ac.uk, 0000-0001-6345-143X, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford (UK)

Output Data

Experiments: I, II, III
Climate Drivers: None
Date: 2018-06-18

Basic information

Model Version: CLM5.0

Model Output License: CC BY 4.0

Reference Paper: Main Reference: David M. Lawrence et al. The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,11,None,2019

Resolution

Spatial aggregation: regular grid

Horizontal resolution: 0.5°x0.5°

Temporal resolution of input data: co2: annual

Temporal resolution of input data: land use/land cover: annual

Temporal resolution of input data: soil: constant

Input data

Simulated atmospheric climate data sets used: IPSL-CM5A-LR, HadGEM2-ES, GFDL-ESM2M, MIROC5

Land use data sets used: Historical, gridded land use (HYDE 3.2)

Other data sets used: Land-sea mask, Drainage direction map for river routing

Climate variables: ta, ua, va, rlds, rhs, rsds, ps, pr

Spin-up

Was a spin-up performed?: Yes

Natural Vegetation

Natural vegetation partition: 24 PFTs for the vegetation land unit

Natural vegetation cover dataset: 0.05 degree MODIS based data

Technological Progress

Technological progress: No

Soil

Soil layers: 15 soil layers

Water Use

Water-use types: Irrigation

Water-use sectors: Agriculture

Routing

Runoff routing: RTM routing module

Dams & Reservoirs

Dam and reservoir implementation: No

Calibration

Was the model calibrated?: No

Methods

Snow melt: A physically based snow module