Perspectives on the Future of Land Surface Models and the Challenges of Representing Complex Terrestrial Systems

Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment

(2019) Nicholas G. Smith et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale

(2019) Dushan P. Kumarathunge et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM 1.2) and its response to increasing CO2

(2019) Thorsten Mauritsen et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

(2019) Daniel Kennedy et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling

(2019) Y. Fan et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

The Importance of Consistent Global Forest Aboveground Biomass Product Validation

(2019) L. Duncanson et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Development and verification of a numerical library for solving global terrestrial multi‐physics problems

(2019) Gautam Bisht et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Recent Changes in the ISBA‐CTRIP Land Surface System for Use in the CNRM‐CM6 Climate Model and in Global Off‐Line Hydrological Applications

(2019) Bertrand Decharme et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Regional and Global Land Data Assimilation Systems: Innovations, Challenges, and Prospects

(2019) Youlong Xia et al.   Journal of Meteorological Research

Separating the impact of individual land surface properties on the terrestrial surface energy budget in both the coupled and un-coupled land-atmosphere system

(2019) Marysa M. Laguë et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

(2019) Shaun Quegan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Length Scales of Hydrological Variability as Inferred from SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

(2019) Randal D. Koster et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Parametric Controls on Vegetation Responses to Biogeochemical Forcing in the CLM5

(2019) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Tree defence and bark beetles in a drying world: carbon partitioning, functioning and modelling

(2019) Jianbei Huang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

(2019) Jens Kattge et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Representing Intrahillslope Lateral Subsurface Flow in the Community Land Model

(2019) Sean C. Swenson et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

(2019) David M. Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Focus on cumulative emissions, global carbon budgets and the implications for climate mitigation targets

(2018) H Damon Matthews et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Could Machine Learning Break the Convection Parameterization Deadlock?

(2018) P. Gentine et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Variation in hydroclimate sustains tropical forest biomass and promotes functional diversity

(2018) Thomas L. Powell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges

(2018) Michael C. Dietze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate, ecosystems, and planetary futures: The challenge to predict life in Earth system models

(2018) Gordon B. Bonan et al.   SCIENCE

Equilibrium forest demography explains the distribution of tree sizes across North America

(2018) Jonathan R Moore et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Comparing optimal and empirical stomatal conductance models for application in Earth system models

(2018) Peter J Franks et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Benchmarking and Process Diagnostics of Land Models

(2018) Grey S. Nearing et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Quality control for community-based sea-ice model development

(2018) Andrew F. Roberts et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

A trans-disciplinary review of deep learning research and its relevance for water resources scientists

(2018) Chaopeng Shen   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models using CLM4.5

(2018) Andrew M. Fox et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation

(2018) Simone Fatichi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modelling tropical forest responses to drought and El Niño with a stomatal optimization model based on xylem hydraulics

(2018) Cleiton B. Eller et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The International Land Model Benchmarking (ILAMB) System: Design, Theory, and Implementation

(2018) Nathan Collier et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Prolongation of SMAP to Spatiotemporally Seamless Coverage of Continental U.S. Using a Deep Learning Neural Network

(2017) Kuai Fang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Carbon cycle confidence and uncertainty: Exploring variation among soil biogeochemical models

(2017) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Models meet data: Challenges and opportunities in implementing land management in Earth system models

(2017) Julia Pongratz et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Vegetation demographics in Earth System Models: A review of progress and priorities

(2017) Rosie A. Fisher et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A Tiling Approach to Represent Subgrid Snow Variability in Coupled Land Surface–Atmosphere Models

(2017) Kjetil Schanke Aas et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

(2017) Ethan E. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multitrait successional forest dynamics enable diverse competitive coexistence

(2017) Daniel S. Falster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Closing the scale gap between land surface parameterizations and GCMs with a new scheme, SiB3-Bins

(2017) I. T. Baker et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Improving the Representation of Polar Snow and Firn in the Community Earth System Model

(2017) Leonardus van Kampenhout et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Estimation of Community Land Model parameters for an improved assessment of net carbon fluxes at European sites

(2017) Hanna Post et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

ISS observations offer insights into plant function

(2017) E. Natasha Stavros et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Global patterns of drought deciduous phenology in semi-arid and savanna-type ecosystems

(2016) Kyla M. Dahlin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Managing complexity in simulations of land surface and near-surface processes

(2016) Ethan T. Coon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Predicting vegetation type through physiological and environmental interactions with leaf traits: evergreen and deciduous forests in an earth system modeling framework

(2016) Ensheng Weng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant hydraulics improves and topography mediates prediction of aspen mortality in southwestern USA

(2016) Xiaonan Tai et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A roadmap for improving the representation of photosynthesis in Earth system models

(2016) Alistair Rogers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The decadal state of the terrestrial carbon cycle: Global retrievals of terrestrial carbon allocation, pools, and residence times

(2016) A. Anthony Bloom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optimal stomatal behavior with competition for water and risk of hydraulic impairment

(2016) Adam Wolf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dominance of the suppressed: Power-law size structure in tropical forests

(2016) C. E. Farrior et al.   SCIENCE

Climate, soil organic layer, and nitrogen jointly drive forest development after fire in the North American boreal zone

(2016) A. T. Trugman et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Tree level hydrodynamic approach for resolving aboveground water storage and stomatal conductance and modeling the effects of tree hydraulic strategy

(2016) Golnazalsadat Mirfenderesgi et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability

(2015) J. E. Kay et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Nitrogen and phosphorous limitation reduces the effects of land use change on land carbon uptake or emission

(2015) Ying-Ping Wang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Temperature acclimation of photosynthesis and respiration: A key uncertainty in the carbon cycle-climate feedback

(2015) Danica L. Lombardozzi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Predicting long-term carbon sequestration in response to CO2 enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ?

(2015) Anthony P. Walker et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model

(2015) Lieneke M. Verheijen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model

(2015) Boris Sakschewski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Advances in remote sensing of vegetation function and traits

(2015) Rasmus Houborg et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

(2015) M. J. Best et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

(2015) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Incorporating phosphorus cycling into global modeling efforts: a worthwhile, tractable endeavor

(2015) Sasha C. Reed et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

(2015) Owen K. Atkin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Permafrost carbon−climate feedback is sensitive to deep soil carbon decomposability but not deep soil nitrogen dynamics

(2015) Charles D. Koven et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Improving the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth System Models

(2015) Martyn P. Clark et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A unified approach for process-based hydrologic modeling: 1. Modeling concept

(2015) Martyn P. Clark et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

A hybrid-3D hillslope hydrological model for use in Earth system models

(2015) P. Hazenberg et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

(2015) Belinda E. Medlyn et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evaluating stomatal models and their atmospheric drought response in a land surface scheme: A multibiome analysis

(2015) Jürgen Knauer et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

A general ecophysiological framework for modelling the impact of pests and pathogens on forest ecosystems.

(2014) Michael C. Dietze et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of large-scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

(2014) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Thermal acclimation of leaf respiration of tropical trees and lianas: response to experimental canopy warming, and consequences for tropical forest carbon balance

(2014) Martijn Slot et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Hyper-resolution global hydrological modelling: what is next?

(2014) Marc F. P. Bierkens et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

The Use of Similarity Concepts to Represent Subgrid Variability in Land Surface Models: Case Study in a Snowmelt-Dominated Watershed

(2014) Andrew J. Newman et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment sites

(2014) Martin G. De Kauwe et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2Enrichment studies

(2014) Sönke Zaehle et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A fully traits-based approach to modeling global vegetation distribution

(2014) P. M. van Bodegom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbe-driven turnover offsets mineral-mediated storage of soil carbon under elevated CO2

(2014) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   Nature Climate Change

The role of data assimilation in predictive ecology

(2014) Shuli Niu et al.   Ecosphere

A stand-alone tree demography and landscape structure module for Earth system models

(2013) Vanessa Haverd et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models

(2013) Vivek K. Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

(2013) Pierre Friedlingstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Next-generation dynamic global vegetation models: learning from community ecology

(2013) Simon Scheiter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes

(2013) William R. Wieder et al.   Nature Climate Change

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION FOR COMPLEX MODELS VIA BAYESIAN COMPRESSIVE SENSING

(2013) Khachik Sargsyan et al.   International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification

The BETHY/JSBACH Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System: experiences and challenges

(2013) T. Kaminski et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models

(2012) David S. LeBauer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Coexistence, niches and biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning

(2012) Lindsay Ann Turnbull et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Incident radiation and the allocation of nitrogen within Arctic plant canopies: implications for predicting gross primary productivity

(2012) Lorna E. Street et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simulating the Biogeochemical and Biogeophysical Impacts of Transient Land Cover Change and Wood Harvest in the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4) from 1850 to 2100

(2012) Peter J. Lawrence et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Toward a Mechanistic Modeling of Nitrogen Limitation on Vegetation Dynamics

(2012) Chonggang Xu et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionarily Stable Strategy Carbon Allocation to Foliage, Wood, and Fine Roots in Trees Competing for Light and Nitrogen: An Analytically Tractable, Individual-Based Model and Quantitative Comparisons to Data

(2011) Ray Dybzinski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Integrating microbial ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities

(2011) Kathleen K. Treseder et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Using lidar data and a height-structured ecosystem model to estimate forest carbon stocks and fluxes over mountainous terrain

(2011) R. Quinn Thomas et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Species coexistence in a variable world

(2011) Dominique Gravel et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Seasonal patterns of CO2fluxes in Amazon forests: Fusion of eddy covariance data and the ORCHIDEE model

(2011) Hans Verbeeck et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Pursuing the method of multiple working hypotheses for hydrological modeling

(2011) Martyn P. Clark et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water

(2011) Eric F. Wood et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Comment on “Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water” by Eric F. Wood et al.

(2011) Keith J. Beven et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model

(2011) David M Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Modelling forest management within a global vegetation model—Part 1: Model structure and general behaviour

(2010) V. Bellassen et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Carbon and nitrogen cycle dynamics in the O-CN land surface model: 1. Model description, site-scale evaluation, and sensitivity to parameter estimates

(2010) S. Zaehle et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance

(2010) BELINDA E. MEDLYN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessing uncertainties in a second-generation dynamic vegetation model caused by ecological scale limitations

(2010) Rosie Fisher et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

(2010) C. Beer et al.   SCIENCE

Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

(2009) Elena Shevliakova et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Net ecosystem exchange over heterogeneous Arctic tundra: Scaling between chamber and eddy covariance measurements

(2008) Andrew M. Fox et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Forest fine-root production and nitrogen use under elevated CO2: contrasting responses in evergreen and deciduous trees explained by a common principle

(2008) OSKAR FRANKLIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part I: Formulation and Evaluation for Two Cities

(2008) K. W. Oleson et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Evaluating the Performance of Land Surface Models

(2008) Gab Abramowitz et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Equifinality in parameterization of process-based biogeochemistry models: A significant uncertainty source to the estimation of regional carbon dynamics

(2008) Jinyun Tang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Predicting and understanding forest dynamics using a simple tractable model

(2008) D. W. Purves et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA