PALADYN v1.0, a comprehensive land surface-vegetation-carbon cycle model of intermediate complexity

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3817-3857

  Willeit, Matteo ^a   Ganopolski, Andrey ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BARE SOIL; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COMPLEXITY; DECOMPOSITION; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY FLUX; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOIL CARBON; SOIL WATER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84993985685     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-3817-2016     Document Type: Article

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