Global Peatland Model Output for Future Climate Projections

Model output from transient simulations of global peatlands since the Last Glacial Maximum. The data contains variables like surface temperature, precipitation, peatland fraction, peatland carbon, total peat carbon, and peatland NEP. It was produced by Jurek Müller at the University of Bern for a manuscript submitted to Biogeosciences Discussions in 2021.

Use Cases

• Project future peatland carbon storage based on modeled peatland carbon and NEP.
• Analyze the relationship between climate variables and peatland extent based on surface temperature, precipitation, and peatland fraction.
• Validate Earth system models using historical peatland reconstructions from the Last Glacial Maximum.
• Assess climate change impacts on the global carbon cycle based on total peat carbon projections.

Strengths

• Model output is tied to a specific, peer-reviewed manuscript submission.
• Data covers multiple key variables for peatland and carbon cycle analysis.
• Simulations provide a long-term perspective from the Last Glacial Maximum to the future.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Bern

Collection Method

Climate model simulations

Time Range

Last Glacial Maximum to future projections

Geography

Global