Assessing the representation of the Australian carbon cycle in global vegetation models

Teckentrup, Lina; De Kauwe, Martin G.; Pitman, Andrew J.; Goll, Daniel S.; Haverd, Vanessa; Jain, Atul K.; Joetzjer, Emilie; Kato, Etsushi; Lienert, Sebastian; Lombardozzi, Danica; McGuire, Patrick C.; Melton, Joe R.; Nabel, Julia E. M. S.; Pongratz, Julia; Sitch, Stephen; Walker, Anthony P.; Zaehle, Sönke

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5639-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-5639-2021

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Assessing the representation of the Australian carbon cycle in global vegetation models

Lina Teckentrup, Martin G. De Kauwe, Andrew J. Pitman, Daniel S. Goll, Vanessa Haverd, Atul K. Jain, Emilie Joetzjer, Etsushi Kato, Sebastian Lienert, Danica Lombardozzi, Patrick C. McGuire, Joe R. Melton, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Anthony P. Walker, and Sönke Zaehle

Data sets

Annual global automated MODIS vegetation continuous fields (MOD44B) at 250 m spatial resolution for data years beginning day 65, 2000–2014, collection 5 percent tree cover, version 6 C. M. DiMiceli, M. L. Carroll, R. A. Sohlberg, C. Huang, M. C. Hansen, and J. R. G. Townshend https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/mod44bv006/

Australian and New Zealand Flux Research and Monitoring OzFlux http://www.ozflux.org.au/

Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass (http://wald.anu.edu.au/global-biomass/) Y. Y. Liu, A. I. J. M. van Dijk, R. A. M. de Jeu, J. G. Canadell, M. F. McCabe, J. P. Evans, and G. Wang https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2581

A Global, 0.05-Degree Product of Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence Derived from OCO-2, MODIS, and Reanalysis Data (https://globalecology.unh.edu/data/GOSIF-GPP.html) X. Li and J. Xiao https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11050517

CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System ECMWF https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/cams-gfas/

Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016 (https://globalfiredata.org/pages/data/) G. R. van der Werf, J. T. Randerson, L. Giglio, T. T. van Leeuwen, Y. Chen, B. M. Rogers, M. Mu, M. J. E. van Marle, D. C. Morton, G. J. Collatz, R. J. Yokelson, and P. S. Kasibhatla https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-697-2017

Model code and software

lteckentrup/TRENDY_v8_Australia: v1.0.0 (v1.0.0) Lina Teckentrup https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5570974

Short summary

The Australian continent is included in global assessments of the carbon cycle such as the global carbon budget, yet the performance of dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) over Australia has rarely been evaluated. We assessed simulations by an ensemble of dynamic global vegetation models over Australia and highlighted a number of key areas that lead to model divergence on both short (inter-annual) and long (decadal) timescales.