Articles | Volume 12, issue 23
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7185-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7185-2015
Research article
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10 Dec 2015
Research article |  | 10 Dec 2015

Using satellite data to improve the leaf phenology of a global terrestrial biosphere model

N. MacBean, F. Maignan, P. Peylin, C. Bacour, F.-M. Bréon, and P. Ciais

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Previous model evaluation studies have shown that terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs) need a better representation of the leaf phenology, but the model deficiency could be related to incorrect model parameters or inaccurate model structure. This paper presents a framework for optimising the parameters of phenology models that are commonly used in TBMs. It further demonstrates that the optimisation can result in changes to trends in vegetation productivity and an improvement in gross C fluxes.
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