Abstract
Abstract. At the leaf level, stomata control the exchange of water and carbon across the air–leaf interface. Stomatal conductance is typically modeled empirically, based on environmental conditions at the leaf surface. Recently developed stomatal optimization models show great skills at predicting carbon and water fluxes at both the leaf and tree levels. However, how well the optimization models perform at larger scales has not been extensively evaluated. Furthermore, stomatal models are often used with simple single-leaf representations of canopy radiative transfer (RT), such as big-leaf models. Nevertheless, the single-leaf canopy RT schemes do not have the capability to model optical properties of the leaves nor the entire canopy. As a result, they are unable to directly link canopy optical properties with light distribution within the canopy to remote sensing data observed from afar. Here, we incorporated one optimization-based and two empirical stomatal models with a comprehensive RT model in the land component of a new Earth system model within CliMA, the Climate Modelling Alliance. The model allowed us to simultaneously simulate carbon and water fluxes as well as leaf and canopy reflectance and fluorescence spectra. We tested our model by comparing our modeled carbon and water fluxes and solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) to two flux tower observations (a gymnosperm forest and an angiosperm forest) and satellite SIF retrievals, respectively. All three stomatal models quantitatively predicted the carbon and water fluxes for both forests. The optimization model, in particular, showed increased skill in predicting the water flux given the lower error (ca. 14.2 % and 21.8 % improvement for the gymnosperm and angiosperm forests, respectively) and better 1:1 comparison (slope increases from ca. 0.34 to 0.91 for the gymnosperm forest and from ca. 0.38 to 0.62 for the angiosperm forest). Our model also predicted the SIF yield, quantitatively reproducing seasonal cycles for both forests. We found that using stomatal optimization with a comprehensive RT model showed high accuracy in simulating land surface processes. The ever-increasing number of regional and global datasets of terrestrial plants, such as leaf area index and chlorophyll contents, will help parameterize the land model and improve future Earth system modeling in general.
Highlights
Anthropogenic emissions have resulted in an unprecedentedly rapid increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and global warming (IPCC, 2014)
We evaluated our model by comparing the model-predicted ecosystem carbon and water fluxes to flux tower measurements as well as to two well-established empirical stomatal models, and comparing the model-predicted solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) to the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) SIF retrievals (Köhler et al, 2018)
We present our first step towards bridging stomatal control, plant hydraulics, and a comprehensive radiative transfer (RT) scheme in the land component of a new Earth system model developed by the Climate Modeling Alliance (CliMA)
Summary
Anthropogenic emissions have resulted in an unprecedentedly rapid increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and global warming (IPCC, 2014). Terrestrial plants control the opening of tiny pores on leaves, called stomata, in response to a variety of environmental and physiological stimuli Accurately representing this process is essential in land surface simulations, as stomata affect carbon and water fluxes as well as the surface energy balance. More complex models with multiple canopy layers, horizontal canopy heterogeneity (Braghiere et al, 2021), and more detailed representations of the canopy RT scheme are required for the purpose of simulating canopy optical parameters, such as the RT scheme used in the Soil Canopy Observation of Photosynthesis and Energy fluxes (SCOPE) model (Yang et al, 2017) This way, the advantages of stomatal optimization theory and those of a complicated multilayer canopy RT scheme are integrated, being able to better relate plant physiology to remotely sensed canopy spectra. We evaluated our model by comparing the model-predicted ecosystem carbon and water fluxes to flux tower measurements as well as to two well-established empirical stomatal models, and comparing the model-predicted SIF to the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) SIF retrievals (Köhler et al, 2018)
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