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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1971-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1971-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model evaluation paper
| 
09 Mar 2022
Model evaluation paper |
| 09 Mar 2022
| 09 Mar 2022
Global evaluation of the Ecosystem Demography model (ED v3.0)
Lei Ma
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
George Hurtt
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
Lesley Ott
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Ritvik Sahajpal
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
Justin Fisk
Regrow Agriculture Inc., Durham, NH 03824, USA
Rachel Lamb
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 117570,
Singapore
Steve Flanagan
Wildland Fire Science, Tall Timbers Research Station and Land
Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL 32312, USA
Louise Chini
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20770, USA
Abhishek Chatterjee
Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD 21046, USA
now at: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91326, USA
Joseph Sullivan
Department of Plant Science & Landscape Architecture, University
of Maryland, College Park, MD 20770, USA
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Short summary
We present a global version of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model which can track vegetation 3-D structure and scale up ecological processes from individual vegetation to ecosystem scale. Model evaluation against multiple benchmarking datasets demonstrated the model’s capability to simulate global vegetation dynamics across a range of temporal and spatial scales. With this version, ED has the potential to be linked with remote sensing observations to address key scientific questions.
We present a global version of the Ecosystem Demography (ED) model which can track vegetation...
