Abstract
Numerical models have been developed to investigate and understand responses of biogeochemical cycle to global changes. Steady state, when a system is in dynamic equilibrium, is generally required to initialize these model simulations. However, the spin-up process that is used to achieve steady state pose a great burden to computational resources, limiting the efficiency of global modeling analysis on biogeochemical cycles. This study introduces a new Semi-Analytical Spin-Up (SASU) to tackle this grand challenge. We applied SASU to Community Land Model version 5 and examined its computational efficiency and accuracy. At the Brazil site, SASU is computationally 7 times more efficient than (or saved up to 86% computational cost in comparison with) the traditional native dynamics (ND) spin-up to reach the same steady state. Globally, SASU is computationally 8 times more efficient than the accelerated decomposition spin-up and 50 times more efficient than ND. In summary, SASU achieves the highest computational efficiency for spin-up on site and globally in comparison with other spin-up methods. It is generalizable to wide biogeochemical models and thus makes computationally costly studies (e.g., parameter perturbation ensemble analysis and data assimilation) possible for a better understanding of biogeochemical cycle under climate change.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e2023MS003625 |
Journal | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems |
Volume | 15 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2023 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- carbon cycle
- spin-up
- terrestrial biogeochemistry model
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Global and Planetary Change
- Environmental Chemistry
- General Earth and Planetary Sciences