B14A:
New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models I

Session ID#: 1997

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2002 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States and Atul K. Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, United States
Primary Convener:  Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States; Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
Co-conveners:  Atul K. Jain1, James Tremper Randerson2 and Jefferson Keith Moore1,3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, United States(2)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States(3)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Characterizing Uncertainty

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

B14A-01
Modeling Tropical Forests: Challenges and Opportunities (Invited) (3357)
Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Maria Uriarte, Columbia University, New York, United States, Tana E Wood, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, United States, Molly A Cavaleri, Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, United States and Ariel E. Lugo, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States
B14A-02
Global scale analysis and evaluation of an improved mechanistic representation of plant nitrogen and carbon dynamics in the Community Land Model (CLM) (30201)
Bardan Ghimire1, William J Riley2, Charles D Koven1, James Tremper Randerson3, Mingquan Mu4, Jens Kattge5, Alistair Rogers6 and Peter B. Reich7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN, United States
B14A-03
Predicting the future by explaining the past: constraining carbon-climate feedback using contemporary observations (Invited) (5668)
A Scott Denning, Dept. of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States
B14A-04
Carbon Cycle and Land Surface Developments for the next generation UK Earth System Model. (28966)
Andy Wiltshire1, Anna B Harper1,2 and The UKESM1 Carbon Cycle Development Team, (1)Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom
B14A-05
Influence of Phosphorus Cycle Coupling on Carbon-Climate Feedbacks (Invited) (8019)
Xiaojuan Yang, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Daniel M Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States
B14A-06
Scaling from individual plants to the globe in an Earth System Model: height structured competition and carbon cycling (18209)
Ensheng Weng1, Sergey Malyshev2, Jeremy W Lichstein3, Caroline E Farrior4, Ray Dybzinski4, Tao Zhang5, Elena Shevliakova6 and Stephen W Pacala7, (1)Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, United States, (2)NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Florida, Department of Biology, Gainesville, United States, (4)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (6)NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (7)Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States
B14A-07
Role of ocean isopycnal mixing in setting the uptake of anthropogenic carbon (Invited) (19887)
Anand Gnanadesikan, Johns Hopkins University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Marie-Aude Sabine Pradal, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, United States and Ryan P Abernathey, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States
B14A-08
Leaf Area Index in Earth System Models: Evaluation and Projections (8332)
Natalie M Mahowald, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Fiona Lo, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, Yun Zheng, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Laura Harrison, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Chris C Funk, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
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