Encoding Diel Hysteresis and the Birch Effect in Dryland Soil Respiration Models through Knowledge-Guided Deep Learning

Jiang, Peishi; Chen, Xingyuan; Missik, Justine E.; Gao, Zhongming; Liu, Heping; Verbeke, Brittany A.

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.1035540

Encoding Diel Hysteresis and the Birch Effect in Dryland Soil Respiration Models through Knowledge-Guided Deep Learning

Journal Article · Wed Dec 07 23:00:00 EST 2022 · Frontiers in Environmental Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1035540· OSTI ID:1903485

Jiang, Peishi ^[1]; Chen, Xingyuan ^[1]; Missik, Justine E. ^[2]; Gao, Zhongming ^[3]; Liu, Heping ^[3]; Verbeke, Brittany A. ^[1]

BATTELLE (PACIFIC NW LAB)
Ohio State University
WASHINGTON STATE UNIV

Soil respiration in dryland ecosystems is challenging to model due to its complex interactions with environmental drivers. Knowledge-guided deep learning provides a much more effective means of accurately representing these complex interactions than traditional Q10-based models. Mutual information analysis revealed that future soil temperature shares more information with soil respiration than past soil temperature, consistent with their clockwise diel hysteresis. We explicitly encoded diel hysteresis, soil drying, and soil rewetting effects on soil respiration dynamics in a newly designed Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model. The model takes both past and future environmental drivers as inputs to predict soil respiration. The new LSTM model substantially outperformed three Q10-based models and the Community Land Model when reproducing the observed soil respiration dynamics in a semi-arid ecosystem. The new LSTM model clearly demonstrated its superiority for temporally extrapolating soil respiration dynamics, such that the resulting correlation with observational data is up to 0.7 while the correlations of the Q10-based models and the Community Land Model (CLM) are less than 0.4. Our results underscore the high potential for knowledge-guided deep learning to replace Q10-based soil respiration modules in Earth system models.

Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1903485

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-179483

Journal Information:: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Journal Name: Frontiers in Environmental Science Vol. 10

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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