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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-689-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-689-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Model description paper
| 
14 Feb 2017
Model description paper |
| 14 Feb 2017
Simple process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available moisture
Tyler W. Davis
AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change
and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK
now at: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, Robert W. Holley Center for Agriculture and Health, Ithaca, USA
I. Colin Prentice
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change
and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure (eMAST), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Benjamin D. Stocker
AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change
and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK
Rebecca T. Thomas
AXA Chair of Biosphere and Climate Impacts, Grand Challenges in Ecosystems and the Environment and Grantham Institute – Climate Change
and the Environment, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK
Rhys J. Whitley
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure (eMAST), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling 712100, China
Bradley J. Evans
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Ecosystem Modelling and Scaling Infrastructure (eMAST), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
Martin T. Sykes
Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Wolfgang Cramer
Mediterranean Institute of marine and terrestrial Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE), Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IRD, Avignon University, Aix-en-Provence, France
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Short summary
This research presents a comprehensive description for calculating necessary, but sparsely observed, factors related to Earth's surface energy and water budgets relevant in, but not limited to, the study of ecosystems. We present the equations, including their derivations and assumptions, as well as example indicators relevant to plant-available moisture. The robustness of these relatively simple equations provides a tool to be used across broad fields of scientific research.
This research presents a comprehensive description for calculating necessary, but sparsely...
