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Reviews and syntheses
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09 Oct 2012
Reviews and syntheses |
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A framework for benchmarking land models
Y. Q. Luo
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
J. T. Randerson
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
G. Abramowitz
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
C. Bacour
Laboratory of Climate Sciences and the Environment, Joint Unit of CEA-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
E. Blyth
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK
N. Carvalhais
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, DCEA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
P. Ciais
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, CE Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
D. Dalmonech
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
J. B. Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
R. Fisher
National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
P. Friedlingstein
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QF, UK
K. Hibbard
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
F. Hoffman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
D. Huntzinger
School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
C. D. Jones
Met Office Hadley Centre, FitzRoy Road, Exeter, EX1 3PB, UK
C. Koven
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
D. Lawrence
National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
D. J. Li
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
M. Mahecha
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
S. L. Niu
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
R. Norby
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
S. L. Piao
Department of Ecology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
X. Qi
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
P. Peylin
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, CE Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
I. C. Prentice
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Sydney, Australia
W. Riley
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
M. Reichstein
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
C. Schwalm
School of Earth Science and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA
Y. P. Wang
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research PMB #1and Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Aspendale, Victoria 3195, Australia
J. Y. Xia
Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
S. Zaehle
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
X. H. Zhou
Research Institute of the Changing Global Environment, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
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