Diagnosing and assessing uncertainties of terrestrial ecosystem models in a multimodel ensemble experiment: 2. Carbon balance

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1367-1378

  Wang, Weile ^a,b   Dungan, Jennifer ^b   Hashimoto, Hirofumi ^a,b   Michaelis, Andrew R ^a,b   Milesi, Cristina ^a,b   Ichii, Kazuhito ^c   Nemani, Ramakrishna R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c FUKUSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Carbon balance; Carbon cycle; Model intercomparison; Model uncertainty; Multimodel ensemble; Terrestrial ecosystem model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SINK; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL CARBON; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 79251636497     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02315.x     Document Type: Article

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