Addressing numerical challenges in introducing a reactive transport code into a land surface model: A biogeochemical modeling proof-of-concept with CLM-PFLOTRAN 1.0

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 927-946

  Tang, Guoping ^a   Yuan, Fengming ^a   Bisht, Gautam ^a,b   Hammond, Glenn E ^c,d   Lichtner, Peter C ^e   Kumar, Jitendra ^a   Mills, Richard T ^f   Xu, Xiaofeng ^a,g   Andre, Ben ^b,h   Hoffman, Forrest M ^a   Painter, Scott L ^a   Thornton, Peter E ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e OFM Research Southwest   (United States)

^f INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^g SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; IMMOBILIZATION; LAND SURFACE; METHANE; NITRIFICATION; NITROUS OXIDE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRANSFORMATION;

ARCTIC;

EID: 84960154813     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-927-2016     Document Type: Article

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