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The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis And Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental Driver Data, Y. Wei, S. Liu, D. N. Huntzinger, A. M. Michalak, N. Viovy, W. M. Post, C. R. Schwalm, K. Schaefer, A. R. Jacobson, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Hanqin Tian, D. M. Ricciuto, R. B. Cook, J. Mao, X. Shi Dec 2014

The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis And Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental Driver Data, Y. Wei, S. Liu, D. N. Huntzinger, A. M. Michalak, N. Viovy, W. M. Post, C. R. Schwalm, K. Schaefer, A. R. Jacobson, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Hanqin Tian, D. M. Ricciuto, R. B. Cook, J. Mao, X. Shi

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

Ecosystems are important and dynamic components of the global carbon cycle, and terrestrial biospheric models (TBMs) are crucial tools in further understanding of how terrestrial carbon is stored and exchanged with the atmosphere across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Improving TBM skills, and quantifying and reducing their estimation uncertainties, pose significant challenges. The Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) is a formal multi-scale and multi-model intercomparison effort set up to tackle these challenges. The MsTMIP protocol prescribes standardized environmental driver data that are shared among model teams to facilitate model–model and model–observation comparisons. This paper describes …


Complex Spatiotemporal Responses Of Global Terrestrial Primary Production To Climate Change And Increasing Atmospheric Co2 In The 21st Century, Shufen Pan, Hanqin Tian, Shree R. S. Dangal, Chi Zhang, Jia Yang, Bo Tao, Zhiyun Ouyang, Xiaoke Wang, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Wei Ren, Kamaljit Banger, Qichun Yang, Bowen Zhang, Xia Li Nov 2014

Complex Spatiotemporal Responses Of Global Terrestrial Primary Production To Climate Change And Increasing Atmospheric Co2 In The 21st Century, Shufen Pan, Hanqin Tian, Shree R. S. Dangal, Chi Zhang, Jia Yang, Bo Tao, Zhiyun Ouyang, Xiaoke Wang, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Wei Ren, Kamaljit Banger, Qichun Yang, Bowen Zhang, Xia Li

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

Quantitative information on the response of global terrestrial net primary production (NPP) to climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 is essential for climate change adaptation and mitigation in the 21st century. Using a process-based ecosystem model (the Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model, DLEM), we quantified the magnitude and spatiotemporal variations of contemporary (2000s) global NPP, and projected its potential responses to climate and CO2 changes in the 21st century under the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) A2 and B1 of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). We estimated a global terrestrial NPP of 54.6 (52.8–56.4) PgC yr−1 as a result …


Impact Of Large-Scale Climate Extremes On Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: An Intercomparison Based On Mstmip Data, Jakov Zscheischler, Anna M. Michalak, Christopher Schwalm, Miguel D. Mahecha, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Markus Reichstein, Gwenaëlle Berthier, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Cook, Bassil El-Masri, Maoyi Huang, Akihiko Ito, Atul Jain, Anthony King, Huimin Lei, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Jiafu Mao, Shushi Peng, Benjamin Poulter, Daniel Ricciuto, Xiaoying Shi, Bo Tao, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Viovy, Weile Wang, Yaxing Wei, Jia Yang, Ning Zeng Jun 2014

Impact Of Large-Scale Climate Extremes On Biospheric Carbon Fluxes: An Intercomparison Based On Mstmip Data, Jakov Zscheischler, Anna M. Michalak, Christopher Schwalm, Miguel D. Mahecha, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Markus Reichstein, Gwenaëlle Berthier, Philippe Ciais, Robert B. Cook, Bassil El-Masri, Maoyi Huang, Akihiko Ito, Atul Jain, Anthony King, Huimin Lei, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Jiafu Mao, Shushi Peng, Benjamin Poulter, Daniel Ricciuto, Xiaoying Shi, Bo Tao, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Viovy, Weile Wang, Yaxing Wei, Jia Yang, Ning Zeng

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

Understanding the role of climate extremes and their impact on the carbon (C) cycle is increasingly a focus of Earth system science. Climate extremes such as droughts, heat waves, or heavy precipitation events can cause substantial changes in terrestrial C fluxes. On the other hand, extreme changes in C fluxes are often, but not always, driven by extreme climate conditions. Here we present an analysis of how extremes in temperature and precipitation, and extreme changes in terrestrial C fluxes are related to each other in 10 state-of-the-art terrestrial carbon models, all driven by the same climate forcing. We use model …


Climate And Land Use Controls On Soil Organic Carbon In The Loess Plateau Region Of China, Yaai Dang, Wei Ren, Bo Tao, Guangsheng Chen, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Jia Yang, Shufen Pan, Guodong Wang, Shiqing Li, Hanqin Tian May 2014

Climate And Land Use Controls On Soil Organic Carbon In The Loess Plateau Region Of China, Yaai Dang, Wei Ren, Bo Tao, Guangsheng Chen, Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu, Jia Yang, Shufen Pan, Guodong Wang, Shiqing Li, Hanqin Tian

Chaoqun (Crystal) Lu

The Loess Plateau of China has the highest soil erosion rate in the world where billion tons of soil is annually washed into Yellow River. In recent decades this region has experienced significant climate change and policy-driven land conversion. However, it has not yet been well investigated how these changes in climate and land use have affected soil organic carbon (SOC) storage on the Loess Plateau. By using the Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model (DLEM), we quantified the effects of climate and land use on SOC storage on the Loess Plateau in the context of multiple environmental factors during the period …