Simulation of CO2 and sensible/latent heat fluxes exchange between land surface and atmosphere over cropland and grassland in semi-arid region, China

Abstract

A comparison between simulated land surface fluxes and observed eddy covariance (EC) measurements was conducted to validate Integrated Biosphere Simulator (IBIS) at Tongyu field observation station (44°25′N, 122°52′E) in Jilin Province, China. Results showed that the IBIS model could reproduce net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE), sensible and latent heat fluxes reasonably, as indicated by correlation coefficients exceeding the significant level of 0.05. It was also evident that the NEE and sensible heat fluxes were characterized by diurnal and seasonal variation both in the grassland and the cropland ecosystems, while the latent heat fluxes correlated with evapotranspiration, only took on the diurnal variation during the growing season. Moreover, both sensible heat fluxes and the latent heat fluxes were larger in the cropland ecosystem than that in the degraded grassland ecosystem. This different characteristic was possibly correlated with vegetation growing situation in the two kinds of ecosystems. A close agreement between observation and simulation on NEE, sensible heat fluxes and latent heat flux was obtained both in the degraded grassland and the cropland ecosystems. In addition, the annual NEE in the model was overestimated by 23.21% at the grassland and 27.43% at the cropland, sensible heat flux with corresponding 9.90% and 11.98%, respectively, and the annual latent heat flux was underestimated by 4.63% and 3.48%, respectively.