Articles | Volume 11, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018
Development and technical paper
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13 Jul 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 13 Jul 2018

Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types

Anna B. Harper, Andrew J. Wiltshire, Peter M. Cox, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chris D. Jones, Lina M. Mercado, Stephen Sitch, Karina Williams, and Carolina Duran-Rojas

Model code and software

JULES4.6 JULES FCM repository https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/jules

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Short summary
Dynamic global vegetation models are used for studying historical and future changes to vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle. JULES is a DGVM that represents the land surface in the UK Earth System Model. We compared simulated gross and net primary productivity of vegetation, vegetation distribution, and aspects of the transient carbon cycle to observational datasets. JULES was able to accurately reproduce many aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle with the recent improvements.