Evaluation and improvement of a global land model against soil carbon data using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 403-417

  Hararuk, Oleksandra ^a   Xia, Jianyang ^a   Luo, Yiqi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

carbon dynamics; model calibration

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARBON CYCLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MODEL VALIDATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; SOIL CARBON; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 84898836446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JG002535     Document Type: Article

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