The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)
- W. Collins, C. Bitz, Richard Smith
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2006
Abstract The Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) has recently been developed and released to the climate community. CCSM3 is a coupled climate model with components representing the…
Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests
- G. Bonan
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 13 June 2008
Interdisciplinary science that integrates knowledge of the many interacting climate services of forests with the impacts of global change is necessary to identify and understand as yet unexplored feedbacks in the Earth system and the potential of forests to mitigate climate change.
Global Consequences of Land Use
- J. Foley, R. DeFries, P. K. Snyder
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 22 July 2005
Global croplands, pastures, plantations, and urban areas have expanded in recent decades, accompanied by large increases in energy, water, and fertilizer consumption, along with considerable losses of biodiversity.
Parameterization improvements and functional and structural advances in Version 4 of the Community Land Model
- D. Lawrence, K. Oleson, A. Slater
- Environmental Science
- 2011
The Community Land Model is the land component of the Community Climate System Model. Here, we describe a broad set of model improvements and additions that have been provided through the CLM…
Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate
- C. Beer, M. Reichstein, D. Papale
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 13 August 2010
Estimates of spatially distributed GPP and its covariation with climate can help improve coupled climate–carbon cycle process models.
The Common Land Model
- Yongjiu Dai, X. Zeng, Zong‐Liang Yang
- Environmental Science
- 1 August 2003
The Common Land Model (CLM) was developed for community use by a grassroots collaboration of scientists who have an interest in making a general land model available for public use and further…
Ecological Climatology: Concepts and Applications
- G. Bonan
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 2002
1. Introduction 2. Global climatology 3. Climate variability 4. Climate change 5. Hydrologic cycle 6. Soils 7. Surface energy fluxes 8. Surface climates 9. Leaves and plants 10. Populations,…
Regions of Strong Coupling Between Soil Moisture and Precipitation
- R. Koster, P. Dirmeyer, T. Yamada
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 20 August 2004
A multimodel estimation of the regions on Earth where precipitation is affected by soil moisture anomalies during Northern Hemisphere summer indicates potential benefits of this estimation may include improved seasonal rainfall forecasts.
The land surface climatology of the community land model coupled to the NCAR community climate model
- G. Bonan, K. Oleson, Zong‐Liang Yang
- Environmental Science
- 15 November 2002
The land surface parameterization used with the community climate model (CCM3) and the climate system model (CSM1), the National Center for Atmospheric Research land surface model (NCAR LSM1), has…
Improving canopy processes in the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) using global flux fields empirically inferred from FLUXNET data
- G. Bonan, P. Lawrence, S. Swenson
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2011
[1] The Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4) overestimates gross primary production (GPP) compared with data-driven estimates and other process models. We use global, spatially gridded GPP and…
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