LPJmL - Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land#
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Description#
LPJmL is a global dynamic vegetation, hydrology, and carbon–nitrogen biogeochemistry model for gridded land-surface simulations (run offline or coupled to climate models). It simulates photosynthesis, stomatal conductance, surface energy balance, vegetation dynamics and competition, phenology, carbon allocation, soil organic matter turnover, and river discharge. Land use and management processes—cropland, pasture, irrigation, and harvest—are explicitly represented. Nutrient limitations and nitrogen cycling influence productivity, carbon storage, and greenhouse gas fluxes. Recent extensions include process-based methane dynamics, linking wetland and rice hydrology to vertically resolved CH₄ production, oxidation, and transport (diffusion, ebullition, and plant-mediated), yielding consistent CH₄, CO₂, N, and water budgets.
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LPJmL : GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 or later
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Literature and Links#
Heinke, J., Rolinski, S., and Müller, C.: Modelling the role of livestock grazing in C and N cycling in grasslands with LPJmL5.0-grazing, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 2455–2475, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-2455-2023, 2023. -von Bloh, W., Schaphoff, S., Müller, C., Rolinski, S., Waha, K., and Zaehle, S.: Implementing the nitrogen cycle into the dynamic global vegetation, hydrology, and crop growth model LPJmL (version 5.0), Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 2789–2812, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2789-2018, 2018.