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CLM5 Simulations of Soil Moisture and Grain Carbon for CONUS at 0.125 degrees
Abstract
This dataset provides 0.125° gridded simulations of soil moisture and crop grain carbon for the Contiguous United States (CONUS), generated using the Community Land Model version 5 (CLM5) with the biogeochemistry module enabled. The data covers a historical baseline (1980–2015) and mid-century future projections (2020–2055). Future projections are organized into two sets of scenarios to distinguish the impacts of different drivers: (1) Atmospheric Only (ATM-only): These scenarios apply future atmospheric forcings while holding land use and land cover change (LULCC) at historical baseline levels. The atmospheric forcings represent moderately versus severely hotter/drier atmospheric conditions (dynamically downscaled perturbed thermodynamics simulations based on CMIP6 SSP245 and SSP585 warming signals), each with cooler versus hotter Earth System Model temperature sensitivity instantiations. These scenarios are identified in the file names as atm45cooler, atm45hotter, atm85cooler, and atm85hotter. (2) Coupled Atmospheric and Land-Use (LAND+ATM): These scenarios apply future atmospheric forcing together with future LULCC by pairing atmospheric pathways with lower versus higher population/economic growth scenarios representing Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 3 and 5 (SSP3 and SSP5). These scenarios are identified in the file names as atm45cooler_ssp3, atm45hotter_ssp3, atm45cooler_ssp5, atm45hotter_ssp5, atm85cooler_ssp3, atm85hotter_ssp3, atm85cooler_ssp5, and atm85hotter_ssp5. Please refer to the README file for detailed information on file structure, variables,more »
- Publication Date:
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- Research Org.:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 3012125
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.57931/3012125
Citation Formats
Yao, Lili, Yan, Hongxiang, Sun, Ning, Sinha, Eva, Narayan, Kanishka, Thurber, Travis, and Rice, Jennie. CLM5 Simulations of Soil Moisture and Grain Carbon for CONUS at 0.125 degrees. United States: N. p., 2026.
Web. doi:10.57931/3012125.
Yao, Lili, Yan, Hongxiang, Sun, Ning, Sinha, Eva, Narayan, Kanishka, Thurber, Travis, & Rice, Jennie. CLM5 Simulations of Soil Moisture and Grain Carbon for CONUS at 0.125 degrees. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/3012125
Yao, Lili, Yan, Hongxiang, Sun, Ning, Sinha, Eva, Narayan, Kanishka, Thurber, Travis, and Rice, Jennie. 2026.
"CLM5 Simulations of Soil Moisture and Grain Carbon for CONUS at 0.125 degrees". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/3012125. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/3012125. Pub date:Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 UTC 2026
@article{osti_3012125,
title = {CLM5 Simulations of Soil Moisture and Grain Carbon for CONUS at 0.125 degrees},
author = {Yao, Lili and Yan, Hongxiang and Sun, Ning and Sinha, Eva and Narayan, Kanishka and Thurber, Travis and Rice, Jennie},
abstractNote = {This dataset provides 0.125° gridded simulations of soil moisture and crop grain carbon for the Contiguous United States (CONUS), generated using the Community Land Model version 5 (CLM5) with the biogeochemistry module enabled. The data covers a historical baseline (1980–2015) and mid-century future projections (2020–2055). Future projections are organized into two sets of scenarios to distinguish the impacts of different drivers: (1) Atmospheric Only (ATM-only): These scenarios apply future atmospheric forcings while holding land use and land cover change (LULCC) at historical baseline levels. The atmospheric forcings represent moderately versus severely hotter/drier atmospheric conditions (dynamically downscaled perturbed thermodynamics simulations based on CMIP6 SSP245 and SSP585 warming signals), each with cooler versus hotter Earth System Model temperature sensitivity instantiations. These scenarios are identified in the file names as atm45cooler, atm45hotter, atm85cooler, and atm85hotter. (2) Coupled Atmospheric and Land-Use (LAND+ATM): These scenarios apply future atmospheric forcing together with future LULCC by pairing atmospheric pathways with lower versus higher population/economic growth scenarios representing Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 3 and 5 (SSP3 and SSP5). These scenarios are identified in the file names as atm45cooler_ssp3, atm45hotter_ssp3, atm45cooler_ssp5, atm45hotter_ssp5, atm85cooler_ssp3, atm85hotter_ssp3, atm85cooler_ssp5, and atm85hotter_ssp5. Please refer to the README file for detailed information on file structure, variables, units, and data formats. },
doi = {10.57931/3012125},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 UTC 2026},
month = {Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 UTC 2026}
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