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Summary

Global offline simulations were performed using the ICNPRDCTCBC compset with and without variable soil thickness.

Validation Test 1

Validation Test 1: Comparison of CTC pools with and without variable soil thickness

Date last modified: August 13, 2020

Contributors: Michael Brunke

Provenance: ICNPRDCTCBC in mabrunke/lnd/varsoil-in-ZD2009-with-BGC vs. master

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There are large effects to adding variable soil thickness in carbon and nitrogen pools, particularly for depth-to-bedrock (DTB) < 5 m.  There is also some increased spread in total ecosystem nitrogen for DTBs > 22 m.  Near-zero differences occur in grid cells receiving precipitation > 5 mm/day, so the larger differences arise in drier grid cells.  Therefore, variable soil thickness can have a substantial impact on BGC simulated in dry locations.

Figure 1.  The difference in total carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus pools between simulations with and without variable soil thickness as a function of depth-to-bedrock.

Validation Test 2

Validation Test 2: short-desciption-of-testing-here

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