Impact model: CLM5.0

Sector
Water (global)
Region
global

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

Information for the model CLM5.0 is provided for the simulation rounds shown in the tabs below. Click on the appropriate tab to get the information for the simulation round you are interested in.

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)
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