Modelling CO2 emissions of cultivated and rewetted peat soils with SWAP-ANIMO - Dataset

Three locations in Europe (wet river valley (Denmark), coastal peatland (The Netherlands) and broad river floodplain (Switzerland)) were selected for which two to three years of measurements of hydrological variables and CO2 exchange fluxes were available for some period between 2015 and 2023. The hydrology, grass growth and CO2 fluxes of these sites were modelled with the SWAP-ANIMO model using the available measurement period for model input and calibration. Model simulations were used to improve the understanding of the hydrological drivers of each site and to obtain estimates of the different pools contributing to the measured CO2 fluxes using a period of 10 years (2014-2023). Rewetting was considered either by calibration on direct measurements of an actual rewetting measure (Denmark, The Netherlands) or extrapolation of the reference simulation (Switzerland). Also, the potential impact of climate change on the rate of peat oxidation was modelled for these sites for both the reference and rewetting measure.

The dataset contains the relevant detailed, daily model output of the 10 year simulation period and aggregated, yearly model output of the scenario simulations which are detailed in the corresponding report (van de Craats et al., 2024), available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14041243.