Towards Better Simulation of US Maize Yield Responses to Climate in the Community Earth System Model

Bin Peng1, Kaiyu Guan2, Min Chen3, David M Lawrence4, Zhenong Jin5, Carl Bernacchi6,7, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth7,8, Evan H DeLucia9,10, Danica L. Lombardozzi11 and Yaqiong Lu12, (1)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Crop Sciences, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States, (4)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (5)Peking University, The Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Beijing, China, (6)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology; Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology;, Urbana, United States, (7)United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Urbana, United States, (8)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology and Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, United States, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, (10)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology and Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, United States, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States, (12)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States