Climate-driven uncertainties in modeling terrestrial gross primary production: A site level to global-scale analysis

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1394-1411

  Barman, Rahul ^a   Jain, Atul K ^a   Liang, Miaoling ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross primary production (GPP); Integrated science assessment model (ISAM); Land surface model; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CLIMATE EFFECT; EDDY COVARIANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; GRASSLAND; HUMIDITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SAVANNA; SHRUBLAND; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER STRESS;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84898449800     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12474     Document Type: Article

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