European daily CH4 flux for 1981-2023 based on LPJ-GUESS (generated in 2024)

LPJ-GUESS is a process-based dynamic global vegetation model. LPJ-GUESS (version 4.1, revision 12177) is forced with daily ERA5 climate datasets to simulate European terrestrial CH4 emission and uptake at a resolution of 0.5 degree. 

LPJ-GUESS uses time series data (e.g. climate forcing and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations with WMO CO2 X2019 scale) as input to simulate the effects of environmental change on vegetation structure and composition in terms of EU plant functional types (PFTs), soil hydrology and biogeochemistry (Smith et al., 2001, https://web.nateko.lu.se/lpj-guess/). This simulation models natural fluxes, such as those from vegetation and soil under climate change, via natural processes such as biomass allocation, growth, reproduction, establishment, mortality, and disturbance. This means it does not include anthropogenic activities, such as forest management or agricultural management.

The thumbnail shows CH4 fluxes from peatlands for 1 June 2023.