DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

Abstract

Ecosystems are important and dynamic components of the global carbon cycle, and terrestrial biospheric models (TBMs) are crucial tools in further understanding of how terrestrial carbon is stored and exchanged with the atmosphere across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Improving TBM skills, and quantifying and reducing their estimation uncertainties, pose significant challenges. The Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) is a formal multi-scale and multi-model intercomparison effort set up to tackle these challenges. The MsTMIP protocol prescribes standardized environmental driver data that are shared among model teams to facilitate model model and model observation comparisons. In this article, we describe the global and North American environmental driver data sets prepared for the MsTMIP activity to both support their use in MsTMIP and make these data, along with the processes used in selecting/processing these data, accessible to a broader audience. Based on project needs and lessons learned from past model intercomparison activities, we compiled climate, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, nitrogen deposition, land use and land cover change (LULCC), C3 / C4 grasses fractions, major crops, phenology and soil data into a standard format for global (0.5⁰ x 0.5⁰ resolution) and regional (North American: 0.25⁰ x 0.25⁰ resolution) simulations.more » In order to meet the needs of MsTMIP, improvements were made to several of the original environmental data sets, by improving the quality, and/or changing their spatial and temporal coverage, and resolution. The resulting standardized model driver data sets are being used by over 20 different models participating in MsTMIP. Lastly, the data are archived at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC, http://daac.ornl.gov) to provide long-term data management and distribution.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [1];  [2];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [7];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
  3. Carnegie Inst. of Science, Stanford, CA (United States)
  4. National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris (France)
  5. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  6. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder, CO (United States). Earth System Research Lab.
  7. Auburn Univ., AL (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1286833
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Geoscientific Model Development (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Geoscientific Model Development (Online); Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher:
European Geosciences Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Wei, Yaxing, Liu, Shishi, Huntzinger, Deborah N., Michalak, Anna M., Viovy, Nicolas, Post, Wilfred M., Schwalm, Christopher R., Schaeffer, Kevin, Jacobson, Andrew R., Lu, Chaoqun, Tian, Hanqin, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Cook, Robert B., Mao, Jiafu, and Shi, Xiaoying. The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.5194/gmd-7-2875-2014.
Wei, Yaxing, Liu, Shishi, Huntzinger, Deborah N., Michalak, Anna M., Viovy, Nicolas, Post, Wilfred M., Schwalm, Christopher R., Schaeffer, Kevin, Jacobson, Andrew R., Lu, Chaoqun, Tian, Hanqin, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Cook, Robert B., Mao, Jiafu, & Shi, Xiaoying. The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2875-2014
Wei, Yaxing, Liu, Shishi, Huntzinger, Deborah N., Michalak, Anna M., Viovy, Nicolas, Post, Wilfred M., Schwalm, Christopher R., Schaeffer, Kevin, Jacobson, Andrew R., Lu, Chaoqun, Tian, Hanqin, Ricciuto, Daniel M., Cook, Robert B., Mao, Jiafu, and Shi, Xiaoying. Fri . "The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2875-2014. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1286833.
@article{osti_1286833,
title = {The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data},
author = {Wei, Yaxing and Liu, Shishi and Huntzinger, Deborah N. and Michalak, Anna M. and Viovy, Nicolas and Post, Wilfred M. and Schwalm, Christopher R. and Schaeffer, Kevin and Jacobson, Andrew R. and Lu, Chaoqun and Tian, Hanqin and Ricciuto, Daniel M. and Cook, Robert B. and Mao, Jiafu and Shi, Xiaoying},
abstractNote = {Ecosystems are important and dynamic components of the global carbon cycle, and terrestrial biospheric models (TBMs) are crucial tools in further understanding of how terrestrial carbon is stored and exchanged with the atmosphere across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Improving TBM skills, and quantifying and reducing their estimation uncertainties, pose significant challenges. The Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) is a formal multi-scale and multi-model intercomparison effort set up to tackle these challenges. The MsTMIP protocol prescribes standardized environmental driver data that are shared among model teams to facilitate model model and model observation comparisons. In this article, we describe the global and North American environmental driver data sets prepared for the MsTMIP activity to both support their use in MsTMIP and make these data, along with the processes used in selecting/processing these data, accessible to a broader audience. Based on project needs and lessons learned from past model intercomparison activities, we compiled climate, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, nitrogen deposition, land use and land cover change (LULCC), C3 / C4 grasses fractions, major crops, phenology and soil data into a standard format for global (0.5⁰ x 0.5⁰ resolution) and regional (North American: 0.25⁰ x 0.25⁰ resolution) simulations. In order to meet the needs of MsTMIP, improvements were made to several of the original environmental data sets, by improving the quality, and/or changing their spatial and temporal coverage, and resolution. The resulting standardized model driver data sets are being used by over 20 different models participating in MsTMIP. Lastly, the data are archived at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC, http://daac.ornl.gov) to provide long-term data management and distribution.},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-7-2875-2014},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2014},
month = {Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2014}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 181 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation
journal, March 1999


Law Dome CO 2 , CH 4 and N 2 O ice core records extended to 2000 years BP
journal, January 2006

  • MacFarling Meure, C.; Etheridge, D.; Trudinger, C.
  • Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026152

North American Regional Reanalysis
journal, March 2006

  • Mesinger, Fedor; DiMego, Geoff; Kalnay, Eugenia
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 87, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-3-343

Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity
journal, December 2005

  • Norby, R. J.; DeLucia, E. H.; Gielen, B.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 102, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0509478102

Importance of carbon dioxide physiological forcing to future climate change
journal, May 2010

  • Cao, L.; Bala, G.; Caldeira, K.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Issue 21
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913000107

Global evaluation of MTCLIM and related algorithms for forcing of ecological and hydrological models
journal, July 2013


Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future
journal, September 2004


Systematic assessment of terrestrial biogeochemistry in coupled climate-carbon models
journal, October 2009


Carbon Cycle Uncertainty in REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP)
journal, January 2012


Comparison of Radiative and Physiological Effects of Doubled Atmospheric CO2 on Climate
journal, March 1996


Development of a global land cover characteristics database and IGBP DISCover from 1 km AVHRR data
journal, January 2000

  • Loveland, T. R.; Reed, B. C.; Brown, J. F.
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 21, Issue 6-7
  • DOI: 10.1080/014311600210191

Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks
journal, June 2008

  • Reay, Dave S.; Dentener, Frank; Smith, Pete
  • Nature Geoscience, Vol. 1, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1038/ngeo230

Sensitivity of inferred climate model skill to evaluation decisions: a case study using CMIP5 evapotranspiration
journal, May 2013

  • Schwalm, Christopher R.; Huntinzger, Deborah N.; Michalak, Anna M.
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024028

A 1°×1° resolution data set of historical anthropogenic trace gas emissions for the period 1890-1990
journal, December 2001

  • van Aardenne, J. A.; Dentener, F. J.; Olivier, J. G. J.
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 15, Issue 4, p. 909-928
  • DOI: 10.1029/2000GB001265

Spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen deposition in China: Synthesis of observational data
journal, January 2007

  • Lü, Chaoqun; Tian, Hanqin
  • Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 112, Issue D22
  • DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007990

Global distribution of C 3 and C 4 vegetation: Carbon cycle implications : C
journal, January 2003

  • Still, Christopher J.; Berry, Joseph A.; Collatz, G. James
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 17, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1029/2001GB001807

Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000: GLOBAL CROP AREAS AND YIELDS IN 2000
journal, March 2008

  • Monfreda, Chad; Ramankutty, Navin; Foley, Jonathan A.
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 22, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1029/2007GB002947

The impact of climate, CO 2 , nitrogen deposition and land use change on simulated contemporary global river flow : MECHANISMS OF GLOBAL RIVER FLOW
journal, April 2011

  • Shi, Xiaoying; Mao, Jiafu; Thornton, Peter E.
  • Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046773

The representative concentration pathways: an overview
journal, August 2011


The Unified North American Soil Map and its implication on the soil organic carbon stock in North America
journal, January 2013


Exploiting synergies of global land cover products for carbon cycle modeling
journal, April 2006

  • Jung, Martin; Henkel, Kathrin; Herold, Martin
  • Remote Sensing of Environment, Vol. 101, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.020

Effect of nitrogen deposition on China's terrestrial carbon uptake in the context of multifactor environmental changes
journal, January 2012

  • Lu, Chaoqun; Tian, Hanqin; Liu, Mingliang
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 22, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1890/10-1685.1

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset: UPDATED HIGH-RESOLUTION GRIDS OF MONTHLY CLIMATIC OBSERVATIONS
journal, May 2013

  • Harris, I.; Jones, P. D.; Osborn, T. J.
  • International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 34, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1002/joc.3711

A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis: A MODEL-DATA COMPARISON OF GPP
journal, July 2012

  • Schaefer, Kevin; Schwalm, Christopher R.; Williams, Chris
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Vol. 117, Issue G3
  • DOI: 10.1029/2012JG001960

Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence: Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence
journal, October 2011

  • Pielke, Roger A.; Pitman, Andy; Niyogi, Dev
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Vol. 2, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/wcc.144

North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison
journal, May 2012


The Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISI–MIP): Project framework
journal, December 2013

  • Warszawski, Lila; Frieler, Katja; Huber, Veronika
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 111, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312330110

Effect of climate on interannual variability of terrestrial CO 2 fluxes : CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND TERRESTRIAL CO
journal, November 2002

  • Schaefer, Kevin; Denning, A. Scott; Suits, Neil
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 16, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1029/2002GB001928

Numerical Models of the Terrestrial Biosphere
journal, July 1995

  • Foley, Jonathan A.
  • Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 22, Issue 4/5
  • DOI: 10.2307/2845984

The VEMAP Integrated Database for Modelling United States Ecosystem/Vegetation Sensitivity to Climate Change
journal, July 1995

  • Kittel, T. G. F.; Rosenbloom, N. A.; Painter, T. H.
  • Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 22, Issue 4/5
  • DOI: 10.2307/2845986

A land-use and land-cover modeling strategy to support a national assessment of carbon stocks and fluxes
journal, May 2012


Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): overview and key results
journal, April 1999


Global land cover classification at 1 km spatial resolution using a classification tree approach
journal, January 2000

  • Hansen, M. C.; Defries, R. S.; Townshend, J. R. G.
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 21, Issue 6-7
  • DOI: 10.1080/014311600210209

Extrapolation of synoptic meteorological data in mountainous terrain and its use for simulating forest evapotranspiration and photosynthesis
journal, June 1987

  • Running, Steven W.; Nemani, Ramakrishna R.; Hungerford, Roger D.
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 17, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1139/x87-081

The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design
journal, January 2013

  • Huntzinger, D. N.; Schwalm, C.; Michalak, A. M.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 6, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-2121-2013

Sensitivity of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) terrestrial primary production to the accuracy of meteorological reanalyses
journal, January 2006

  • Zhao, Maosheng; Running, Steven W.; Nemani, Ramakrishna R.
  • Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, Issue G1
  • DOI: 10.1029/2004JG000004

The global carbon budget 1959–2011
journal, January 2013


The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
journal, April 2011

  • Dee, D. P.; Uppala, S. M.; Simmons, A. J.
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 137, Issue 656
  • DOI: 10.1002/qj.828

Update on CO2 emissions
journal, November 2010

  • Friedlingstein, P.; Houghton, R. A.; Marland, G.
  • Nature Geoscience, Vol. 3, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1022

Variations in the predicted spatial distribution of atmospheric nitrogen deposition and their impact on carbon uptake by terrestrial ecosystems
journal, July 1997

  • Holland, Elisabeth A.; Braswell, B. H.; Lamarque, Jean-François
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol. 102, Issue D13
  • DOI: 10.1029/96JD03164

The impact of nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration by European forests and heathlands
journal, September 2009


A first-order analysis of the potential rôle of CO 2 fertilization to affect the global carbon budget: a comparison of four terrestrial biosphere models
journal, January 1999

  • Kicklighter, David W.; Bruno, Michele; DZönges, Silke
  • Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, Vol. 51, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v51i2.16303

Towards robust regional estimates of CO2 sources and sinks using atmospheric transport models
journal, February 2002

  • Gurney, Kevin Robert; Law, Rachel M.; Denning, A. Scott
  • Nature, Vol. 415, Issue 6872
  • DOI: 10.1038/415626a

Nitrogen Deposition onto the United States and Western Europe: Synthesis of Observations and Models
journal, February 2005

  • Holland, Elisabeth A.; Braswell, Bobby H.; Sulzman, James
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 15, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1890/03-5162

Challenges to estimating carbon emissions from tropical deforestation
journal, January 2007


Nitrogen attenuation of terrestrial carbon cycle response to global environmental factors: NITROGEN ATTENUATION OF CARBON CYCLE
journal, December 2009

  • Jain, Atul; Yang, Xiaojuan; Kheshgi, Haroon
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 23, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1029/2009GB003519

Estimating Generalized Soil-water Characteristics from Texture1
journal, January 1986


Do Satellites Detect Trends in Surface Solar Radiation?
journal, May 2005


The ERA-40 re-analysis
journal, October 2005

  • Uppala, S. M.; KÅllberg, P. W.; Simmons, A. J.
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. 131, Issue 612
  • DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.176

An extended AVHRR 8‐km NDVI dataset compatible with MODIS and SPOT vegetation NDVI data
journal, October 2005

  • Tucker, Compton J.; Pinzon, Jorge E.; Brown, Molly E.
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 26, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1080/01431160500168686

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Nitrogen and Climate Change
journal, November 2003


The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years: HYDE 3.1 Holocene land use
journal, September 2010


An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids
journal, January 2005

  • Mitchell, Timothy D.; Jones, Philip D.
  • International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 25, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/joc.1181

Satellite-derived estimates of potential carbon sequestration through afforestation of agricultural lands in the United States
journal, January 2007


Assessing variability and long-term trends in burned area by merging multiple satellite fire products
journal, January 2010

  • Giglio, L.; Randerson, J. T.; van der Werf, G. R.
  • Biogeosciences, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-1171-2010

GPCP Pentad Precipitation Analyses: An Experimental Dataset Based on Gauge Observations and Satellite Estimates
journal, July 2003

  • Xie, Pingping; Janowiak, John E.; Arkin, Phillip A.
  • Journal of Climate, Vol. 16, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1175/2769.1

Consistent Land- and Atmosphere-Based U.S. Carbon Sink Estimates
journal, June 2001


Simulated chronic nitrogen deposition increases carbon storage in Northern Temperate forests
journal, November 2007


Asymmetrical response of California electricity demand to summer-time temperature variation
journal, July 2020


The global carbon budget 1959–2011
journal, January 2012

  • Le Quéré, C.; Andres, R. J.; Boden, T.
  • Earth System Science Data Discussions, Vol. 5, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.5194/essdd-5-1107-2012

The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design
journal, January 2013

  • Huntzinger, D. N.; Schwalm, C.; Michalak, A. M.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 6, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmdd-6-3977-2013

The global carbon budget 1959-2011
dataset, January 2012

  • Canadell, Pep
  • Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  • DOI: 10.3334/cdiac/gcp_v2012

Sensitivity of inferred climate model skill to evaluation decisions: A case study using CMIP5 evapotranspiration
text, January 2013


Estimating Generalized Soil-water Characteristics from Texture
journal, July 1986


Works referencing / citing this record:

A data-driven approach to identify controls on global fire activity from satellite and climate observations (SOFIA V1)
journal, January 2017

  • Forkel, Matthias; Dorigo, Wouter; Lasslop, Gitta
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-4443-2017

Forests dominate the interannual variability of the North American carbon sink
journal, August 2018

  • Shiga, Yoichi P.; Michalak, Anna M.; Fang, Yuanyuan
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aad505

Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models
journal, January 2019

  • Forkel, Matthias; Andela, Niels; Harrison, Sandy P.
  • Biogeosciences, Vol. 16, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-16-57-2019

Global vegetation biomass production efficiency constrained by models and observations
journal, September 2019

  • He, Yue; Peng, Shushi; Liu, Yongwen
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 26, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14816

Satellite passive microwaves reveal recent climate-induced carbon losses in African drylands
journal, April 2018

  • Brandt, Martin; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Chave, Jerome
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 2, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0530-6

Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems
journal, February 2020

  • Huntzinger, D. N.; Schaefer, K.; Schwalm, C.
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6784

Revisiting enteric methane emissions from domestic ruminants and their δ13CCH4 source signature
journal, July 2019


Divergence in land surface modeling: linking spread to structure
journal, October 2019

  • Schwalm, Christopher R.; Schaefer, Kevin; Fisher, Joshua B.
  • Environmental Research Communications, Vol. 1, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1088/2515-7620/ab4a8a

Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements
journal, April 2019


Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends
journal, September 2015


Uncertainty analysis of terrestrial net primary productivity and net biome productivity in China during 1901-2005
journal, May 2016

  • Shao, Junjiong; Zhou, Xuhui; Luo, Yiqi
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Vol. 121, Issue 5, p. 1372-1393
  • DOI: 10.1002/2015jg003062

Aquatic carbon cycling in the conterminous United States and implications for terrestrial carbon accounting
journal, December 2015

  • Butman, David; Stackpoole, Sarah; Stets, Edward
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512651112

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink
journal, May 2015


Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014: a 5 arcmin gridded global dataset for Earth system modeling
journal, January 2017


Modeling the Vegetation Dynamics of Northern Shrubs and Mosses in the ORCHIDEE Land Surface Model
journal, July 2019

  • Druel, Arsène; Ciais, Philippe; Krinner, Gerhard
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 11, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018ms001531

Large‐Scale Droughts Responsible for Dramatic Reductions of Terrestrial Net Carbon Uptake Over North America in 2011 and 2012
journal, July 2018

  • He, Wei; Ju, Weimin; Schwalm, Christopher R.
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Vol. 123, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018jg004520

Increasing carbon footprint of grain crop production in the US Western Corn Belt
journal, November 2018


Coupling the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM v. 2.0) to Environment and Climate Change Canada's greenhouse gas forecast model (v.107-glb)
journal, January 2018

  • Badawy, Bakr; Polavarapu, Saroja; Jones, Dylan B. A.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 11, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-631-2018

Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO2 variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños
journal, January 2018


Response of Water Use Efficiency to Global Environmental Change Based on Output From Terrestrial Biosphere Models: Drivers of WUE Variability
journal, November 2017

  • Zhou, Sha; Yu, Bofu; Schwalm, Christopher R.
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 31, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/2017gb005733

The importance of a surface organic layer in simulating permafrost thermal and carbon dynamics
journal, January 2016


Potential Transient Response of Terrestrial Vegetation and Carbon in Northern North America from Climate Change
journal, September 2019

  • Flanagan, Steven A.; Hurtt, George C.; Fisk, Justin P.
  • Climate, Vol. 7, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.3390/cli7090113

Global patterns of drought recovery
journal, August 2017

  • Schwalm, Christopher R.; Anderegg, William R. L.; Michalak, Anna M.
  • Nature, Vol. 548, Issue 7666
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature23021

Contribution of environmental forcings to US runoff changes for the period 1950–2010
journal, May 2018

  • Forbes, Whitney L.; Mao, Jiafu; Jin, Mingzhou
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aabb41

Contrasting terrestrial carbon cycle responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 extreme El Niño events
journal, January 2018

  • Wang, Jun; Zeng, Ning; Wang, Meirong
  • Earth System Dynamics, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/esd-9-1-2018

Historical (1700–2012) global multi-model estimates of the fire emissions from the Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP)
journal, January 2019

  • Li, Fang; Val Martin, Maria; Andreae, Meinrat O.
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 19, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-12545-2019

Emerging risks from marine heat waves
journal, February 2018


Preindustrial nitrous oxide emissions from the land biosphere estimated by using a global biogeochemistry model
journal, January 2017


Are We Getting Better in Using Nitrogen?: Variations in Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Two Cereal Crops Across the United States
journal, August 2019


The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions
journal, January 2017

  • Rabin, Sam S.; Melton, Joe R.; Lasslop, Gitta
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1175-2017

Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions
journal, July 2017


Global divergent responses of primary productivity to water, energy, and CO 2
journal, December 2019

  • Liu, Zhiyong; Chen, Lei; Smith, Nicholas G.
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 14, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab57c5

Expansion of high-latitude deciduous forests driven by interactions between climate warming and fire
journal, August 2019


Contributions of climate change, land use change and CO 2 to changes in the gross primary productivity of the Tibetan Plateau
journal, November 2019


Contributions of wildland fire to terrestrial ecosystem carbon dynamics in North America from 1990 to 2012: Fire-Caused Net Ecosystem Carbon Flux
journal, May 2017

  • Chen, Guangsheng; Hayes, Daniel J.; David McGuire, A.
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 31, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1002/2016gb005548

Impacts of climate variability and extremes on global net primary production in the first decade of the 21st century
journal, July 2015

  • Pan, Shufen; Tian, Hanqin; Dangal, Shree R. S.
  • Journal of Geographical Sciences, Vol. 25, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1007/s11442-015-1217-4

Vegetation Functional Properties Determine Uncertainty of Simulated Ecosystem Productivity: A Traceability Analysis in the East Asian Monsoon Region
journal, June 2019

  • Cui, Erqian; Huang, Kun; Arain, Muhammad Altaf
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 33, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018gb005909

Disentangling Climate and LAI Effects on Seasonal Variability in Water Use Efficiency Across Terrestrial Ecosystems in China
journal, August 2018

  • Li, Yue; Shi, Hao; Zhou, Lei
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Vol. 123, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018jg004482

Circumpolar distribution and carbon storage of thermokarst landscapes
journal, October 2016

  • Olefeldt, D.; Goswami, S.; Grosse, G.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13043

Field-experiment constraints on the enhancement of the terrestrial carbon sink by CO2 fertilization
journal, September 2019


The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes
journal, May 2019


Approaching the potential of model-data comparisons of global land carbon storage
journal, March 2019


Carbon and Water Use Efficiencies: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Terrestrial Ecosystem Models under Changing Climate
journal, October 2019

  • El Masri, Bassil; Schwalm, Christopher; Huntzinger, Deborah N.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50808-7

Toward verifying fossil fuel CO2 emissions with the CMAQ model: Motivation, model description and initial simulation
journal, July 2013

  • Liu, Zhen; Bambha, Ray P.; Pinto, Joseph P.
  • Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Vol. 64, Issue 4, p. 419-435
  • DOI: 10.1080/10962247.2013.816642

Impacts of tillage practices on soil carbon stocks in the US corn-soybean cropping system during 1998 to 2016
journal, January 2020

  • Yu, Zhen; Lu, Chaoqun; Hennessy, David A.
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 15, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6393

Climate-driven uncertainties in modeling terrestrial energy and water fluxes: a site-level to global-scale analysis
journal, March 2014

  • Barman, Rahul; Jain, Atul K.; Liang, Miaoling
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 20, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12473

Climate-driven uncertainties in modeling terrestrial gross primary production: a site level to global-scale analysis
journal, March 2014

  • Barman, Rahul; Jain, Atul K.; Liang, Miaoling
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 20, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12474

Maximum carbon uptake rate dominates the interannual variability of global net ecosystem exchange
journal, July 2019

  • Fu, Zheng; Stoy, Paul C.; Poulter, Benjamin
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14731

BETYdb: a yield, trait, and ecosystem service database applied to second-generation bioenergy feedstock production
journal, January 2017

  • LeBauer, David; Kooper, Rob; Mulrooney, Patrick
  • GCB Bioenergy, Vol. 10, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12420

Climate policy implications of nonlinear decline of Arctic land permafrost and other cryosphere elements
text, January 2019

  • Yumashev, Dmitry; Hope, Chris; Schaefer, Kevin
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
  • DOI: 10.17863/cam.39713

The impact of spatiotemporal variability in atmospheric CO2 concentration on global terrestrial carbon fluxes
journal, January 2018


Towards a more detailed representation of high-latitude vegetation in the global land surface model ORCHIDEE (ORC-HL-VEGv1.0)
journal, January 2017

  • Druel, Arsène; Peylin, Philippe; Krinner, Gerhard
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-4693-2017

A predictive algorithm for wetlands in deep time paleoclimate models
journal, January 2019

  • Wilton, David J.; Badger, Marcus P. S.; Kantzas, Euripides P.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 12, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019

LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soil moisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome
journal, January 2016

  • van den Hurk, Bart; Kim, Hyungjun; Krinner, Gerhard
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 9, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016

Reduced North American terrestrial primary productivity linked to anomalous Arctic warming
journal, July 2017

  • Kim, Jin-Soo; Kug, Jong-Seong; Jeong, Su-Jong
  • Nature Geoscience, Vol. 10, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2986

A Predictive Algorithm For Wetlands In Deep Time Paleoclimate Models
journal, January 2018

  • Wilton, David J.; Badger, Marcus; Kantzas, Euripides P.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2018-213

The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design
journal, January 2013

  • Huntzinger, D. N.; Schwalm, C.; Michalak, A. M.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 6, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmdd-6-3977-2013

Comparison of effects of cold‐region soil/snow processes and the uncertainties from model forcing data on permafrost physical characteristics
journal, March 2016

  • Barman, Rahul; Jain, Atul K.
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/2015ms000504

Decadal trends in the seasonal-cycle amplitude of terrestrial CO 2 exchange resulting from the ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models
journal, May 2016

  • Ito, Akihiko; Inatomi, Motoko; Huntzinger, Deborah N.
  • Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology, Vol. 68, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v68.28968

Simulating CH4 and CO2 over South and East Asia using the zoomed chemistry transport model LMDz-INCA
journal, January 2018

  • Lin, Xin; Ciais, Philippe; Bousquet, Philippe
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 18, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-18-9475-2018

Tropical climate-vegetation-fire relationships: multivariate evaluation of the land surface model JSBACH
posted_content, January 2018

  • Lasslop, Gitta; Moeller, Thomas; D’Onofrio, Donatella
  • Biogeosciences Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-2018-48

A global wetland methane emissions and uncertainty dataset for atmospheric chemical transport models (WetCHARTs version 1.0)
journal, January 2017

  • Bloom, A. Anthony; Bowman, Kevin W.; Lee, Meemong
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-2141-2017

Emerging risks from marine heat waves
text, January 2018


Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO2 variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños
text, January 2018

  • Wang, Jun; Zeng, Ning; Wang, Meirong
  • European Geosciences Union
  • DOI: 10.48350/119621

Effects of Warming Hiatuses on Vegetation Growth in the Northern Hemisphere
journal, April 2018

  • Wei, Hong; Zhao, Xiang; Liang, Shunlin
  • Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.3390/rs10050683

Emerging risks from marine heat waves
journal, February 2018


The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes
journal, May 2019


Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions
journal, July 2017


Approaching the potential of model-data comparisons of global land carbon storage
journal, March 2019


Carbon and Water Use Efficiencies: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Terrestrial Ecosystem Models under Changing Climate
journal, October 2019

  • El Masri, Bassil; Schwalm, Christopher; Huntzinger, Deborah N.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50808-7

Technical note: 3-hourly temporal downscaling of monthly global terrestrial biosphere model net ecosystem exchange
journal, March 2016

  • Fisher, Joshua B.; Sikka, Munish; Huntsinger, Deborah N.
  • Biogeosciences Discussion
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-2016-67

The importance of tree demography and root water uptake for modelling the carbon and water cycles of Amazonia
journal, July 2018

  • Joetzjer, Emilie; Maignan, Fabienne; Chave, Jérôme
  • Biogeosciences Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-2018-308

Preindustrial nitrous oxide emissions from the land biosphere estimated by using a global biogeochemistry model
journal, January 2017


Contrasting terrestrial carbon cycle responses to the 1997/98 and 2015/16 extreme El Niño events
journal, January 2018

  • Wang, Jun; Zeng, Ning; Wang, Meirong
  • Earth System Dynamics, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/esd-9-1-2018

Global manure nitrogen production and application in cropland during 1860–2014: a 5 arcmin gridded global dataset for Earth system modeling
journal, January 2017


A globally calibrated scheme for generating daily meteorology from monthly statistics: Global-WGEN (GWGEN) v1.0
journal, October 2017


A data-driven approach to identify controls on global fire activity from satellite and climate observations (SOFIA V1)
journal, January 2017

  • Forkel, Matthias; Dorigo, Wouter; Lasslop, Gitta
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-4443-2017

Coupling the Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM v. 2.0) to Environment and Climate Change Canada's greenhouse gas forecast model (v.107-glb)
journal, January 2018

  • Badawy, Bakr; Polavarapu, Saroja; Jones, Dylan B. A.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 11, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-631-2018

A predictive algorithm for wetlands in deep time paleoclimate models
journal, January 2019

  • Wilton, David J.; Badger, Marcus P. S.; Kantzas, Euripides P.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 12, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-1351-2019

The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols
journal, October 2016

  • Rabin, Sam S.; Melton, Joe R.; Lasslop, Gitta
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2016-237

LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soil moisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome
journal, January 2016

  • van den Hurk, Bart; Kim, Hyungjun; Krinner, Gerhard
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 9, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016

Weak sensitivity of the terrestrial water budget to global soil texture maps in the ORCHIDEE land surface model
journal, July 2020

  • Tafasca, Salma; Ducharne, Agnès; Valentin, Christian
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 24, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-3753-2020

Simulated high-latitude soil thermal dynamics during the past 4 decades
journal, January 2016