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@ARTICLE{Weihermller:14523,
author = {Weihermüller, L. and Huisman, J.A. and Graf, A. and
Herbst, M. and Vereecken, H.},
title = {{E}rrors in modelling carbon turnover induced by temporal
temperature aggregation},
journal = {Vadose zone journal},
volume = {10},
issn = {1539-1663},
address = {Madison, Wis.},
publisher = {SSSA},
reportid = {PreJuSER-14523},
pages = {195 - 205},
year = {2011},
note = {We would like to thank Horst Hardelauf for the
modifications of the RothC/SOILCO2 code and Jan Vanderborght
for the fruitful discussions. This research was supported by
the German Research Foundation DFG (Transregional
Collaborative Research Centre 32-Patterns in
Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: Monitoring, Modelling,
and Data Assimilation).},
abstract = {Modeling of C turnover is a common tool for the prediction
of C stocks and CO2 efflux. It is well recognized that the
choice of the input data (e. g., C pool sizes, hydraulic
parameters, atmospheric boundary conditions) determines the
outcome of these prediction. Temperature is known to be one
of the most important driving factors and it varies in a
range of temporal scales. Typically, the time discretization
of most models is flexible and can range from minutes to
months. However, the implications of variable time
discretization for predicted soil C turnover are seldom
discussed. In this study, we demonstrated that averaging of
input temperature data will lead to changes in predicted C
turnover in terms of daily amplitude and the impact of
extreme temperatures. The results indicate that averaging
from hourly to daily or monthly temperatures will lead to
relative errors $>4\%$ yr(-1) for cumulative CO2 efflux.
Instantaneous CO2 fluxes are even more affected, where daily
and monthly averaging will lead to estimation errors
exceeding $20\%.$ We also show that a constant or daily
variable temperature amplitude for rescaling daily average
temperature did not decrease the error when using daily or
monthly mean temperature instead of hourly data. Therefore,
instantaneous fluxes are only accurately predicted when
hourly temperature input is used. For long-term modeling
(e.g., years to centuries), the relative error in cumulative
efflux, and therefore in C stocks loss, is reasonably low
(similar to $4-5\%$ annual error) but will accumulate with
time again.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {Terrestrische Umwelt},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK407},
shelfmark = {Environmental Sciences / Soil Science / Water Resources},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000287573300017},
doi = {10.2136/vzj2009.0157},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/14523},
}