Abstract
Daily flows of water, heat, carbon and nitrogen from 1976 until 1991 were simulated with the one-dimensional models soil —soiln for a 105-year-old spruce stand on an acid brown forest soil at Solling (central Germany). Nitrogen deposition in the area exceeded 40 kg N ha −1 yr −1. Comparisons were made with measured soil water tensions, chloride and mineral nitrogen concentrations in soil water, and tree biomass components. Down to 60-cm depth, the simulated soil water tensions agreed well with measured data when a summer surface resistance of 125 s m −1 was used to calculate potential transpiration. Modelling efficiency (an indicator of agreement between simulations and measurements) for pF-values of soil water tensions ranged from 0.55 to 0.87. At 100-cm depth, the modelling efficiency was only 0.15. The mean value of the chloride concentrations were, at the same time, underestimated. The average deep percolation was 38% of the precipitation. A lower summer surface resistance of 80 s m −1 was necessary to increase the agreement between simulated and measured chloride concentrations, which decreased the deep percolation to 31% of the precipitation. On average, simulation resulted in an accumulation of N in trees (21 kg N ha −1 yr −1 but a decrease of N in soil (7 kg N ha −1 yr −1). Simulated leaching was high (27 kg N ha −1 yr −1) and probably overestimated due to overestimated soil nitrate concentrations below the root zone. To evaluate the carbon and nitrogen model, too few detailed measurements were available on, especially, plant N uptake and amounts of soil mineral N.
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