Impact model: JULES-B1

Sector
Permafrost
Region
global

JULES-B1 (formerly JULES_UoE) is a terrestrial biosphere model and is one of the 3 models following the ISIMIP2 protocol which form the base of simulations for the ISIMIP2 permafrost sector outputs; for a full technical description of the ISIMIP2 Simulation Data from Permafrost Sector, see this DOI link: http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2018.006

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Person responsible for model simulations in this simulation round
Richard Betts: richard.betts@metoffice.gov.uk, 0000-0002-4929-0307, Met Office (UK)
Catherine Morfopoulos: c.morfopoulos@imperial.ac.uk, 0000-0002-6121-2483, Imperial College of London, Department of Life Sciences (UK)
Output Data
Experiments: historical
Climate Drivers: None
Date: 2016-08-24
Basic information
Model Version: JULES v4.4
Reference Paper: Main Reference: Clark D, Mercado L, Sitch S, Jones C, Gedney N, Best M, Pryor M, Rooney G, Essery R, Blyth E, Boucher O, Harding R, Huntingford C, Cox P et al. The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description – Part 2: Carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics. Geoscientific Model Development,4,701-722,2011
Reference Paper: Other References:
Resolution
Horizontal resolution: 0.5°x0.5°
Temporal resolution of input data: climate variables: daily
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
Observed atmospheric climate data sets used: PGMFD v2.1 (Princeton)
Emissions data sets used: CO2 concentration
Spin-up
Was a spin-up performed?: Yes
Spin-up design: We use the 1901-1910 climate condition, pre-industry CO2 (287.14 ppm), land cover map of 1860 to do an equilibrium run of 100 years with TRIFFID on an equilibrium mode followed by a spin-up until the soil carbon to be equilibrium. Then a simulation from 1861 to 1900 was performed with varied CO2 and land-cover/land-use change, and climate of 1901-1910 cycled. The final transient simulation of 1901-2012 was forced by varied climate, CO2 and land-cover/land-use change.
Natural Vegetation
Natural vegetation partition: Dynamic vegetation scheme, 9PFT, PFT can coexist on the same grid cell
Natural vegetation dynamics: Competition between natural PFTs is based on a tree-shrub-grass dominance hierarchy
Management & Adaptation Measures
Management: No specific management. Crop area are represented by C3 and C4 grasses
Key model processes
Dynamic vegetation: Simulated by TRIFFID representing competition between PFTs using Lotka-Volterra equations with net carbon balance as a proxy for population size.