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Title: LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soilmoisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome

Abstract

The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project (LS3MIP) is designed to provide a comprehensive assessment of land surface, snow and soil moisture feedbacks on climate variability and climate change, and to diagnose systematic biases in the land modules of current Earth system models (ESMs). Furthermore, the solid and liquid water stored at the land surface has a large influence on the regional climate, its variability and predictability, including effects on the energy, water and carbon cycles. Notably, snow and soil moisture affect surface radiation and flux partitioning properties, moisture storage and land surface memory. They both strongly affect atmospheric conditions, in particular surface air temperature and precipitation, but also large-scale circulation patterns. But, models show divergent responses and representations of these feedbacks as well as systematic biases in the underlying processes. LS3MIP will provide the means to quantify the associated uncertainties and better constrain climate change projections, which is of particular interest for highly vulnerable regions (densely populated areas, agricultural regions, the Arctic, semi-arid and other sensitive terrestrial ecosystems). The experiments are subdivided in two components, the first addressing systematic land biases in offline mode (“LMIP”, building upon the 3rd phase of Global Soil Wetness Project; GSWP3)more » and the second addressing land feedbacks attributed to soil moisture and snow in an integrated framework (“LFMIP”, building upon the GLACE-CMIP blueprint).« less

Authors:
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  1. Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt (Netherlands)
  2. Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble (France)
  4. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  5. Environment and Climate Change, Toronto ON (Canada)
  6. National Center for Meteorological Research, Toulous (France)
  7. Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
  8. Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (France)
  9. French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA-Saclay), Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  10. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States). NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research
  11. International Inst. for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (Austria)
  12. China Meterological Administration, Beijing (China)
  13. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
  14. National Agency for New Technologies, Rome (Italy)
  15. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
  16. Joint Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Research (JCHMR), Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)
  17. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Oxfordshire (United Kingdom)
  18. Max Planck Inst. for Meteorology, Hamburg (Germany)
  19. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  20. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  21. Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change (CMCC), Bologna (Italy)
  22. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Oceans and Atmosphere, Aspendale VIC (Australia)
  23. Univ. of Southampton (United Kingdom); Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1376656
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: 9; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher:
European Geosciences Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES

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van den Hurk, Bart, Kim, Hyungjun, Krinner, Gerhard, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Derksen, Chris, Oki, Taikan, Douville, Hervé, Colin, Jeanne, Ducharne, Agnès, Cheruy, Frederique, Viovy, Nicholas, Puma, Michael J., Wada, Yoshihide, Li, Weiping, Jia, Binghao, Alessandri, Andrea, Lawrence, Dave M., Weedon, Graham P., Ellis, Richard, Hagemann, Stefan, Mao, Jiafu, Flanner, Mark G., Zampieri, Matteo, Materia, Stefano, Law, Rachel M., and Sheffield, Justin. LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soilmoisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016.
van den Hurk, Bart, Kim, Hyungjun, Krinner, Gerhard, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Derksen, Chris, Oki, Taikan, Douville, Hervé, Colin, Jeanne, Ducharne, Agnès, Cheruy, Frederique, Viovy, Nicholas, Puma, Michael J., Wada, Yoshihide, Li, Weiping, Jia, Binghao, Alessandri, Andrea, Lawrence, Dave M., Weedon, Graham P., Ellis, Richard, Hagemann, Stefan, Mao, Jiafu, Flanner, Mark G., Zampieri, Matteo, Materia, Stefano, Law, Rachel M., & Sheffield, Justin. LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soilmoisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016
van den Hurk, Bart, Kim, Hyungjun, Krinner, Gerhard, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Derksen, Chris, Oki, Taikan, Douville, Hervé, Colin, Jeanne, Ducharne, Agnès, Cheruy, Frederique, Viovy, Nicholas, Puma, Michael J., Wada, Yoshihide, Li, Weiping, Jia, Binghao, Alessandri, Andrea, Lawrence, Dave M., Weedon, Graham P., Ellis, Richard, Hagemann, Stefan, Mao, Jiafu, Flanner, Mark G., Zampieri, Matteo, Materia, Stefano, Law, Rachel M., and Sheffield, Justin. Wed . "LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soilmoisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1376656.
@article{osti_1376656,
title = {LS3MIP (v1.0) contribution to CMIP6: the Land Surface, Snow and Soilmoisture Model Intercomparison Project – aims, setup and expected outcome},
author = {van den Hurk, Bart and Kim, Hyungjun and Krinner, Gerhard and Seneviratne, Sonia I. and Derksen, Chris and Oki, Taikan and Douville, Hervé and Colin, Jeanne and Ducharne, Agnès and Cheruy, Frederique and Viovy, Nicholas and Puma, Michael J. and Wada, Yoshihide and Li, Weiping and Jia, Binghao and Alessandri, Andrea and Lawrence, Dave M. and Weedon, Graham P. and Ellis, Richard and Hagemann, Stefan and Mao, Jiafu and Flanner, Mark G. and Zampieri, Matteo and Materia, Stefano and Law, Rachel M. and Sheffield, Justin},
abstractNote = {The Land Surface, Snow and Soil Moisture Model Intercomparison Project (LS3MIP) is designed to provide a comprehensive assessment of land surface, snow and soil moisture feedbacks on climate variability and climate change, and to diagnose systematic biases in the land modules of current Earth system models (ESMs). Furthermore, the solid and liquid water stored at the land surface has a large influence on the regional climate, its variability and predictability, including effects on the energy, water and carbon cycles. Notably, snow and soil moisture affect surface radiation and flux partitioning properties, moisture storage and land surface memory. They both strongly affect atmospheric conditions, in particular surface air temperature and precipitation, but also large-scale circulation patterns. But, models show divergent responses and representations of these feedbacks as well as systematic biases in the underlying processes. LS3MIP will provide the means to quantify the associated uncertainties and better constrain climate change projections, which is of particular interest for highly vulnerable regions (densely populated areas, agricultural regions, the Arctic, semi-arid and other sensitive terrestrial ecosystems). The experiments are subdivided in two components, the first addressing systematic land biases in offline mode (“LMIP”, building upon the 3rd phase of Global Soil Wetness Project; GSWP3) and the second addressing land feedbacks attributed to soil moisture and snow in an integrated framework (“LFMIP”, building upon the GLACE-CMIP blueprint).},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-9-2809-2016},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development (Online)},
number = 8,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
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The Flux-Anomaly-Forced Model Intercomparison Project (FAFMIP) contribution to CMIP6: investigation of sea-level and ocean climate change in response to CO 2 forcing
journal, January 2016

  • Gregory, Jonathan M.; Bouttes, Nathaelle; Griffies, Stephen M.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 9, Issue 11
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Overview of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) experimental design and organisation
journal, January 2015

  • Eyring, V.; Bony, S.; Meehl, G. A.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 8, Issue 12
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The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project
text, January 2011

  • Compo, Gilbert P.; Whitaker, Jeffrey S.; Sardeshmudh, Prashant D.
  • Royal Meteorological Society
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Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis
text, January 2013


Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
text, January 2015


A submonthly database for detecting changes in vegetation-atmosphere coupling
text, January 2015


The WFDEI Meteorological Forcing Data
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  • UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
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The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data
journal, January 2013

  • Wei, Y.; Liu, S.; Huntzinger, D. N.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 6, Issue 4
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Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe
journal, December 2010

  • van den Hurk, Bart; Doblas-Reyes, Francisco; Balsamo, Gianpaolo
  • Climate Dynamics, Vol. 38, Issue 1-2
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The effect of Congo River freshwater discharge on Eastern Equatorial Atlantic climate variability
journal, September 2012


European temperatures in CMIP5: origins of present-day biases and future uncertainties
journal, March 2013


Observed shift towards earlier spring discharge in the main Alpine rivers
journal, January 2015


Holism, entrenchment, and the future of climate model pluralism
journal, September 2010

  • Lenhard, Johannes; Winsberg, Eric
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 41, Issue 3
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Monitoring biosphere vegetation 1998-2009: MONITORING BIOSPHERE VEGETATION 1998-2009
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Satellite-based estimates of groundwater depletion in India
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Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands
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A decade of sea level rise slowed by climate-driven hydrology
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Assessing the Influence of Soil Moisture on Seasonal Climate Variability with AGCMs
journal, December 2003


The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP)
journal, December 2009

  • Boone, Aaron; de Rosnay, Patricia; Balsamo, Gianpaolo
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Evaluating the Land and Ocean Components of the Global Carbon Cycle in the CMIP5 Earth System Models
journal, September 2013


Anthropic land use causes summer cooling in ­Central Europe
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Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
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A trend-preserving bias correction – the ISI-MIP approach
journal, January 2013

  • Hempel, S.; Frieler, K.; Warszawski, L.
  • Earth System Dynamics Discussions, Vol. 4, Issue 1
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OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project
journal, January 2016

  • Griffies, Stephen M.; Danabasoglu, Gokhan; Durack, Paul J.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 9, Issue 9
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The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data
journal, January 2013

  • Wei, Y.; Liu, S.; Huntzinger, D. N.
  • Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, Vol. 6, Issue 4
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Benchmark products for land evapotranspiration: LandFlux-EVAL multi-data set synthesis
journal, January 2013

  • Mueller, B.; Hirschi, M.; Jimenez, C.
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 17, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-3707-2013

An analysis of present and future seasonal Northern Hemisphere land snow cover simulated by CMIP5 coupled climate models
journal, January 2013

  • Brutel-Vuilmet, C.; Ménégoz, M.; Krinner, G.
  • The Cryosphere, Vol. 7, Issue 1
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The Sensitivity of North American Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Spatial and Temporal Variation in Soil Moisture: An Analysis Using Radar‐Derived Estimates of Root‐Zone Soil Moisture
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Global Investigation of Soil Moisture and Latent Heat Flux Coupling Strength
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Attribution of seasonal leaf area index trends in the northern latitudes with “optimally” integrated ecosystem models
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Varying soil moisture–atmosphere feedbacks explain divergent temperature extremes and precipitation projections in central Europe
journal, January 2018

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GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014
journal, January 2019

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Meteorological and evaluation datasets for snow modelling at 10 reference sites: description of in situ and bias-corrected reanalysis data
journal, January 2019

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  • Earth System Science Data, Vol. 11, Issue 2
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The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 4: Scientific objectives and experimental design of the PMIP4-CMIP6 Last Glacial Maximum experiments and PMIP4 sensitivity experiments
journal, January 2017

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  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 10, Issue 11
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The CMIP6 Data Request (DREQ, version 01.00.31)
journal, January 2020

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JULES-GL7: the Global Land configuration of the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator version 7.0 and 7.2
journal, January 2020

  • Wiltshire, Andrew J.; Duran Rojas, Maria Carolina; Edwards, John M.
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 13, Issue 2
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The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6: rationale and experimental design
journal, January 2016

  • Lawrence, David M.; Hurtt, George C.; Arneth, Almut
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 9, Issue 9
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Understanding terrestrial water storage variations in northern latitudes across scales
journal, January 2018

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Evaluation of ORCHIDEE-MICT-simulated soil moisture over China and impacts of different atmospheric forcing data
journal, January 2018

  • Yin, Zun; Ottlé, Catherine; Ciais, Philippe
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 22, Issue 10
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Canadian snow and sea ice: assessment of snow, sea ice, and related climate processes in Canada's Earth system model and climate-prediction system
journal, January 2018

  • Kushner, Paul J.; Mudryk, Lawrence R.; Merryfield, William
  • The Cryosphere, Vol. 12, Issue 4
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The European mountain cryosphere: a review of its current state, trends, and future challenges
journal, January 2018

  • Beniston, Martin; Farinotti, Daniel; Stoffel, Markus
  • The Cryosphere, Vol. 12, Issue 2
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Large carbon cycle sensitivities to climate across a permafrost thaw gradient in subarctic Sweden
journal, January 2019

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State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes.
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GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014
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Contributions of climate change and groundwater extraction to soil moisture trends
journal, January 2019


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text, January 2018

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Evaluation of Freshwater Flow From Rivers to the Sea in CMIP5 Simulations: Insights From the Congo River Basin
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The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 1: Overview and over-arching analysis plan
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Understanding terrestrial water storage variations in northern latitudes across scales
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  • Trautmann, Tina; Koirala, Sujan; Carvalhais, Nuno
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions
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The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6: Rationale and experimental design
text, January 2016


Development of Land Surface Model BCC_AVIM2.0 and Its Preliminary Performance in LS3MIP/CMIP6
journal, October 2019


The Influence of Environmental Change (Crops and Water) on Population Redistribution in Mexico and Ethiopia
journal, November 2019

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State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes
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Contributions of climate change and groundwater extraction to soil moisture trends
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  • Wang, Longhuan; Xie, Zhenghui; Jia, Binghao
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ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks
journal, January 2018

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Understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate extremes: Challenges and opportunities
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Snow cover duration trends observed at sites and predicted by multiple models
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