Forest soil carbon stock estimates in a nationwide inventory: evaluating performance of the ROMULv and Yasso07 models in Finland

Lehtonen, Aleksi; Linkosalo, Tapio; Peltoniemi, Mikko; Sievänen, Risto; Mäkipää, Raisa; Tamminen, Pekka; Salemaa, Maija; Nieminen, Tiina; Ťupek, Boris; Heikkinen, Juha; Komarov, Alexander

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4169-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4169-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-4169-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 11

Model evaluation paper

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22 Nov 2016

Model evaluation paper |

| 22 Nov 2016

Forest soil carbon stock estimates in a nationwide inventory: evaluating performance of the ROMULv and Yasso07 models in Finland

Aleksi Lehtonen, Tapio Linkosalo, Mikko Peltoniemi, Risto Sievänen, Raisa Mäkipää, Pekka Tamminen, Maija Salemaa, Tiina Nieminen, Boris Ťupek, Juha Heikkinen, and Alexander Komarov

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SC1: 'Executive Editor Comment on "Soil carbon stock estimates in a nationwide inventory: evaluating performance of the ROMUL and Yasso07 models"', Astrid Kerkweg, 11 Aug 2016
RC1: 'Review gmd-2016-144', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Sep 2016
RC2: 'review of gmd-2016-144', Anonymous Referee #2, 16 Sep 2016
AC1: 'Response to the comments from Excecutive editor, Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2.', Aleksi Lehtonen, 02 Nov 2016

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AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (03 Nov 2016) Author's response

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (04 Nov 2016) by Carlos Sierra

AR by Aleksi Lehtonen on behalf of the Authors (08 Nov 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

It is known that Earth system models have challenges to predict correct levels of soil carbon stocks. Quantification of those stocks is a prerequisite for reliable prediction of future carbon exchange between biosphere and atmosphere. Here, we tested Yasso07 and ROMULv soil carbon models against empirical data from Finland. We found that both the role of understorey vegetation and the impact of drought to decomposition should be incorporated into soil models to have realistic soil carbon stocks.