Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types

Harper, Anna B.; Wiltshire, Andrew J.; Cox, Peter M.; Friedlingstein, Pierre; Jones, Chris D.; Mercado, Lina M.; Sitch, Stephen; Williams, Karina; Duran-Rojas, Carolina

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 7

Development and technical paper

|

13 Jul 2018

Development and technical paper |

| 13 Jul 2018

Vegetation distribution and terrestrial carbon cycle in a carbon cycle configuration of JULES4.6 with new plant functional types

Anna B. Harper, Andrew J. Wiltshire, Peter M. Cox, Pierre Friedlingstein, Chris D. Jones, Lina M. Mercado, Stephen Sitch, Karina Williams, and Carolina Duran-Rojas

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2857-2018-supplement

Model code and software

JULES4.6 JULES FCM repository https://code.metoffice.gov.uk/trac/jules

Short summary

Dynamic global vegetation models are used for studying historical and future changes to vegetation and the terrestrial carbon cycle. JULES is a DGVM that represents the land surface in the UK Earth System Model. We compared simulated gross and net primary productivity of vegetation, vegetation distribution, and aspects of the transient carbon cycle to observational datasets. JULES was able to accurately reproduce many aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle with the recent improvements.