Plant phenology evaluation of CRESCENDO land surface models – Part 1: Start and end of the growing season

Peano, Daniele; Hemming, Deborah; Materia, Stefano; Delire, Christine; Fan, Yuanchao; Joetzjer, Emilie; Lee, Hanna; Nabel, Julia E. M. S.; Park, Taejin; Peylin, Philippe; Wårlind, David; Wiltshire, Andy; Zaehle, Sönke

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2405-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2405-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2405-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 7

Research article

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16 Apr 2021

Research article |

| 16 Apr 2021

Plant phenology evaluation of CRESCENDO land surface models – Part 1: Start and end of the growing season

Daniele Peano, Deborah Hemming, Stefano Materia, Christine Delire, Yuanchao Fan, Emilie Joetzjer, Hanna Lee, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Taejin Park, Philippe Peylin, David Wårlind, Andy Wiltshire, and Sönke Zaehle

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2405-2021-supplement

Data sets

Copernicus Global Land Operations “Vegetation and Energy”, Copernicus Global Land operations – Lot 1 A. Verger, F. Baret, and M. Weiss https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/LAI

CRUNCEP Version 7 – Atmospheric Forcing Data for the Community Land Model N. Viovy http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds314.3/

CEDA JASMIN Service – CRESCENDO M. Pritchard and CEDA staff https://www.ceda.ac.uk/

Leaf Area Index (LAI3g) dataset R. Myneni http://sites.bu.edu/cliveg/datacodes/

Model code and software

4 Growing Season Type (4GST) code D. Peano https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4680992

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Global climate models are the scientist’s tools used for studying past, present, and future climate conditions. This work examines the ability of a group of our tools in reproducing and capturing the right timing and length of the season when plants show their green leaves. This season, indeed, is fundamental for CO₂ exchanges between land, atmosphere, and climate. This work shows that discrepancies compared to observations remain, demanding further polishing of these tools.