A framework for benchmarking land models

By Yiqi Luo, J. Randerson, Gab Abramowitz, Cédric Bacour, E. Blyth, N. Carvalhais, Philippe Ciais, D. Dalmonech, Joshua B. Fisher, R. Fisher and 22 more. 2012

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Land models, which have been developed by the modeling community in the past few decades to predict fu- ture states of ecosystems and climate, have to be critically evaluated for their performance skills of simulating ecosys- tem responses and feedback to climate change. Benchmark- ing is an emerging procedure to measure performance of models against a set of defined standards. This paper pro- poses a benchmarking framework for evaluation of land model performances and, meanwhile, highlights major chal- lenges at this infant stage of benchmark analysis. The frame- work includes (1) targeted aspects of model performance

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology

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