Systematic biases in large-scale estimates of wetland methane emissions arising from water table formulations

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作者
Bohn, Theodore J. [1 ]
Lettenmaier, Dennis P. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
关键词
NATURAL WETLANDS; MODEL;
D O I
10.1029/2010GL045450
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Most earth system models that simulate wetland methane emissions ignore spatial variability of water table depth. We compared methane emissions estimated using two commonly-used water table approximations (wet-dry and uniform) to a scheme that accounts for spatial variability, for several combinations of methane model parameter values and a range of water table depth spatial variability (sigma(zwt)). The approximations' biases were consistent across methane model parameter sets. The wet-dry scheme's biases were smallest in absolute value (+/-5-10%) when sigma(zwt) was large (38 cm) but increased to between -85% and -95% as sigma(zwt) approached 0. The uniform scheme's biases were largest (+/-100% or more) when sigma(zwt) was large and vanished as sigma(zwt) approached 0. For sigma(zwt) values typical of boreal wetlands, these schemes' previous predictions that global wetland methane emissions will double by 2100 are in error by factors ranging from 0.7 to 1.3. Similar biases may affect paleoclimate studies. Citation: Bohn, T. J., and D. P. Lettenmaier (2010), Systematic biases in large-scale estimates of wetland methane emissions arising from water table formulations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L22401, doi: 10.1029/2010GL045450.
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