Chairs:  Forrest M Hoffman1, Atul K Jain2, James Tremper Randerson1 and Jefferson Keith Moore2, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States(2)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 
 		
	
	
	
		
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Controls on terrestrial carbon feedbacks by productivity and turnover of the vegetation and decomposing C pools in the CMIP5 ESMs
			
			
			
				
					Charles D Koven1, Jeffrey Q Chambers2, Ryan G Knox1, Robinson I Negron Juarez1, William J Riley3, Vivek Arora4, Victor Brovkin5, Pierre Friedlingstein6 and Chris Jones7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Canadian Climate Center, Victoria, BC, Canada, (5)MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (6)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (7)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				The association between net primary productivity and rainfall in CMIP5 20th and 21st century simulations
			
			
			
				
					Robinson I Negron Juarez1, William J Riley1, Charles D Koven2, Ryan G Knox2, Philip Taylor3 and Jeffrey Q Chambers4, (1)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Model evaluation using a community benchmarking system for land surface models
			
			
			
				
					Mingquan Mu1, Forrest M Hoffman2,3, David M Lawrence4, William J Riley5, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks1, Erik Ben Kluzek4, Charles D Koven5 and James Tremper Randerson1, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Dynamics of global vegetation biomass simulated by the integrated Earth System Model
			
			
			
				
					Jiafu Mao1, Xiaoying Shi1, Alan V Di Vittorio2, Peter E Thornton3, Shilong Piao4, Xuebin Yang5, John Truesdale6, Ben P Bond-Lamberty7, Louise P Chini8, Allison M Thomson7, George C Hurtt9, William Collins10 and James Edmonds7, (1)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Peking University, Beijing, China, (5)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and Environment, Austin, TX, United States, (6)Independent contractor with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Explicitly Synchronizing Soil Water and Carbon Nitrogen Reactive Transport Using CLM-PFLOTRAN: Does Sequential or Synchronized Implementing of Soil Processes Matter to Soil C Stocks?
			
			
			
				
					Fengming Yuan1, Guoping Tang1, Xiaofeng Xu1,2, Jitendra Kumar1, Gautam Bisht3, Glenn E Hammond4, Peter E Thornton1, Richard T Mills1,5 and Stan D Wullschleger1, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)Intel Corp, Portland, OR, United States
				
			
			
			
		
	 
 
	
	
		
			
		
	
	
	
	
	
		
 
 
	
	
	
		
			
				Sensitivity of simulated CO2 concentration to sub-annual variations in fossil fuel CO2 emissions
			
			
			
				
					Xia Zhang1, Kevin R Gurney2, Peter J Rayner3, David F Baker4, Yu-ping Liu5 and Salvi Asefi-Najafabady1, (1)Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (3)The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, (4)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States