Chairs: Forrest M Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Atul K Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Conveners: Forrest M Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Co-conveners: Atul K Jain1, James Tremper Randerson2 and Jefferson Keith Moore1,3, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States(2)Univ California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States(3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Forrest M Hoffman, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
4:00 PM
Modeling Tropical Forests: Challenges and Opportunities
Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Moab, UT, United States, Maria Uriarte, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Tana E Wood, Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, San Juan, PR, United States, Molly A Cavaleri, Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI, United States and Ariel E Lugo, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States
4:15 PM
Global scale analysis and evaluation of an improved mechanistic representation of plant nitrogen and carbon dynamics in the Community Land Model (CLM)
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 Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, (7)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Forest Resources, Minneapolis, MN, United States
5:00 PM
Influence of Phosphorus Cycle Coupling on Carbon-Climate Feedbacks
Xiaojuan Yang1, Peter E Thornton2, Daniel M Ricciuto1 and Forrest M Hoffman3, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
5:15 PM
Scaling from individual plants to the globe in an Earth System Model: height structured competition and carbon cycling
Ensheng Weng1, Sergey Malyshev2, Jeremy W Lichstein3, Caroline E Farrior1, Ray Dybzinski1, Tao Zhang3, Elena Shevliakova4 and Stephen W Pacala5, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States
5:45 PM
Leaf Area Index in Earth System Models: Evaluation and Projections
Natalie M Mahowald1, Fiona Lo1, Yun Zheng1, Laura Harrison2 and Chris C Funk3, (1)Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
