Improving predictions of large scale soil carbon dynamics: Integration of fine-scale hydrological and biogeochemical processes, scaling, and benchmarking

William J Riley1, Dipankar Dwivedi2, Bardan Ghimire3, Forrest M. Hoffman4, George Shu Heng Pau1, James Tremper Randerson5, Chaopeng Shen6, Jinyun Tang7 and Qing Zhu1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States