Developing a global mixed-canopy, height-variable vegetation structure dataset for estimating global vegetation albedo and biomass in the NASA Ent Terrestrial Biosphere Model and GISS GCM

Carlo Montes1, Nancy Y Kiang1, Wenze Yang2, Wenge Ni-Meister3, Crystal Schaaf4, Igor D Aleinov5, Jeffrey Jonas6, Feng Zhao7, Tian Yao8, Zhuosen Wang9 and Qingsong Sun4, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Hunter College of The City University of New York, New York, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (6)Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (8)Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, United States, (9)University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States