Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-287-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-287-2025
Model evaluation paper
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21 Jan 2025
Model evaluation paper |  | 21 Jan 2025

Systematic underestimation of type-specific ecosystem process variability in the Community Land Model v5 over Europe

Christian Poppe Terán, Bibi S. Naz, Harry Vereecken, Roland Baatz, Rosie A. Fisher, and Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

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Carbon and water exchanges between the atmosphere and the land surface contribute to water resource availability and climate change mitigation. Land surface models, like the Community Land Model version 5 (CLM5), simulate these. This study finds that CLM5 and other data sets underestimate the magnitudes of and variability in carbon and water exchanges for the most abundant plant functional types compared to observations. It provides essential insights for further research into these processes.

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