Reviews and syntheses: Four decades of modeling methane cycling in  terrestrial ecosystems

Xu, Xiaofeng; Yuan, Fengming; Hanson, Paul J.; Wullschleger, Stan D.; Thornton, Peter E.; Riley, William J.; Song, Xia; Graham, David E.; Song, Changchun; Tian, Hanqin

doi:10.5194/bg-13-3735-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3735-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3735-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Reviews and syntheses

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28 Jun 2016

Reviews and syntheses |

| 28 Jun 2016

Reviews and syntheses: Four decades of modeling methane cycling in terrestrial ecosystems

Xiaofeng Xu, Fengming Yuan, Paul J. Hanson, Stan D. Wullschleger, Peter E. Thornton, William J. Riley, Xia Song, David E. Graham, Changchun Song, and Hanqin Tian

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Short summary

Accurately projecting future climate change requires a good methane modeling. However, how good the current models are and what are the key improvements needed remain unclear. This paper reviews the 40 published methane models to characterize the strengths and weakness of current methane models and further lay out the roadmap for future model improvements.