ARVE-Research/LPJ-LMfire: LPJ-LMfire (tropical forest restoration)

9 January 2022

This is the official release of the LPJ-LMfire Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, version 1.4. This is the version of the model that was used to generate the results in the following publication:

Koch, A., & Kaplan, J. O. (in press). Tropical forest restoration under future climate change. Nature Climate Change.

Primary modifications from LPJ-LMfire 1.3 (Chaste et al., 2018) include various bugfixes and modifications to the output routines to archive variables needed for this study.

For more information, please contact support@arve-research.com

Jed Kaplan Department of Earth Sciences The University of Hong Kong

Additional references:

Chaste, E., Girardin, M. P., Kaplan, J. O., Portier, J., Bergeron, Y., and Hély, C.: The pyrogeography of eastern boreal Canada from 1901 to 2012 simulated with the LPJ-LMfire model, Biogeosciences, 15, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1-2018.

Pfeiffer, M., Spessa, A., and Kaplan, J. O.: A model for global biomass burning in preindustrial time: LPJ-LMfire (v1.0), Geoscientific Model Development, 6, 643-685, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-643-2013.