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Research article2024Peer reviewedOpen access

Bayesian calibration of the ICBM/3 soil organic carbon model constrained by data from long-term experiments and uncertainties of C inputs

Menichetti, Lorenzo; Katterer, Thomas; Bolinder, Martin A.

Abstract

Models with various complexity can asses soil C sequestration in agriculture. In this study, we updated the Introductory Carbon Balance Model (ICBM) with 28 years of additional data and included multiple long-term bare fallow experiments for old pool kinetics. We validated the model with data from a new long-term sister experiment. The new calibration included uncertainty in the estimation of below-ground C inputs to soil. The model now considers above- and belowground and external C inputs separately (ICBM/3). The underlying mathematical approach is the same, with two state variables and a climatic parameter, and such simple structure remained robust enough to describe soil organic C dynamics over six decades. We tested including an inert soil C pool in the model structure, but it did not decrease the observed variance. Similarly, an intercept in the functions for estimating belowground C input from crop yield was not useful. Results suggest that root C contributes more to the old organic C pool than aboveground C inputs. We also evaluated parameters interactions, in particular between C inputs and their transformation into more stable soil C interacted and decomposition kinetics. We also describe new functions for estimating the ICBM climatic parameter in a more user-friendly way.

Keywords

SOC decomposition; SOC models; Bayesian uncertainty estimation; ICBM model

Published in

Carbon Management
2024, volume: 15, number: 1, article number: 2304749
Publisher: TAYLOR AND FRANCIS LTD

SLU Authors

UKÄ Subject classification

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Soil Science

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2024.2304749

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128261