Sensitivity of global terrestrial gross primary production to hydrologic states simulated by the Community Land Model using two runoff parameterizations

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 658-679

  Lei, Huimin ^a,b   Huang, Maoyi ^b   Leung, L Ruby ^b   Yang, Dawen ^a   Shi, Xiaoying ^c   Mao, Jiafu ^c   Hayes, Daniel J ^c   Schwalm, Christopher R ^d   Wei, Yaxing ^c   Liu, Shishi ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon cycling; global scale; modeling; runoff generation scheme; soil moisture; vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; MODELS; MOISTURE; PARAMETERIZATION; RUNOFF; SOILS; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON CYCLING; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; GLOBAL SCALE; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; RUNOFF GENERATION; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CARBON CYCLE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INFILTRATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84921345767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19422466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013MS000252     Document Type: Article

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