An assessment of natural methane fluxes simulated by the CLASS-CTEM model

Vivek K. Arora, Joe R. Melton, and David Plummer

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Final revised paper (published on 01 Aug 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 19 Dec 2017)

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RC1: 'Arora et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jan 2018
- AC1: 'Response to comments from Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2', Vivek Arora, 18 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Apr 2018
- AC1: 'Response to comments from Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2', Vivek Arora, 18 Apr 2018

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (09 May 2018) by Alexey V. Eliseev

AR by Lorena Grabowski on behalf of the Authors (06 Jun 2018) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (06 Jun 2018) by Alexey V. Eliseev

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Jun 2018)

ED: Publish as is (18 Jun 2018) by Alexey V. Eliseev

Short summary

Earth system models (ESMs) project future changes in climate in response to changes in anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). However, before this can be achieved the natural fluxes of a given GHG must also be modelled. This paper evaluates the natural methane fluxes simulated by the CLASS-CTEM model (which is the land component of the Canadian ESM) against observations to show that the simulated methane emissions from wetlands and fires, and soil uptake of methane are realistic.