carbonsoil.update: The CarbonSoil model - calculate change in soil carbon for...

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Simple dynamic model of soil carbon content, with a time step of one year. The equations that describe the dynamics of this system are adapted from the Henin-Dupuis model described in Jones et al. (2004). The soil carbon content is represented by a single state variable: the mass of carbon per unit land area in the top 20 cm of soil in a given year (Z, kg.ha-1). It is assumed that soil C is known in some year, taken as the initial year. The yearly change in soil C is the difference between input from crop biomass and loss.

Usage

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carbonsoil.update(Zy, R, b, Uy)

Arguments

Zy

: Soil carbon content for year

R

: the fraction of soil carbon content lost per year

b

: the fraction of yearly crop biomass production left in the soil

Uy

: the amount of C in crop biomass production in the given year

Value

Soil carbon content for year+1.


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