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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3499-2017
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3499-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Model evaluation paper
| 
22 Sep 2017
Model evaluation paper |
| 22 Sep 2017
Evaluating the effect of alternative carbon allocation schemes in a land surface model (CLM4.5) on carbon fluxes, pools, and turnover in temperate forests
Francesc Montané
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
Andrew M. Fox
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
Avelino F. Arellano
Department of Hydrology and
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
Natasha MacBean
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
M. Ross Alexander
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Res., University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona, 85721, USA
Alex Dye
Department of Geology and Geography, West
Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA
Daniel A. Bishop
Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, 10964, USA
Valerie Trouet
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Res., University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona, 85721, USA
Flurin Babst
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Res., University of Arizona, Tucson,
Arizona, 85721, USA
Dendro Sciences Unit, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL,
Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
W. Szafer
Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Lubicz 46, 31-512
Krakow, Poland
Amy E. Hessl
Department of Geology and Geography, West
Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506, USA
Neil Pederson
Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham,
Massachusetts, 01366, USA
Peter D. Blanken
Department of Geography, University of
Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA
Gil Bohrer
Department of Civil,
Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus,
Ohio, 43210, USA
Christopher M. Gough
Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, Virginia, 23284, USA
Marcy E. Litvak
Department of Biology,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131, USA
Kimberly A. Novick
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, USA
Richard P. Phillips
Department of Biology, Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, USA
Jeffrey D. Wood
School of Natural
Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 65211, USA
David J. P. Moore
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of
Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 85721, USA
Model code and software
Evaluating the effect of alternative carbon allocation schemes D. J. P. Moore https://github.com/davidjpmoore/gmd-2017-74
Short summary
How carbon is allocated to different plant tissues (leaves, stem, and roots) determines carbon residence time and thus remains a central challenge for understanding the global carbon cycle. In this paper, we compared standard and novel carbon allocation schemes in CLM4.5 and evaluated them using eddy covariance wood and leaf biomass. The dynamic scheme based on work by Litton improved model performance, but this was dependent on model assumptions about woody turnover.
How carbon is allocated to different plant tissues (leaves, stem, and roots) determines carbon...
