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Integrating ozone–vegetation damage schemes into SSiB4/TRIFFID: evaluation of six parameterizations and refinement of ozone decay process across plant functional types
Lingfeng Li
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Bo Qiu
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School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Siwen Zhao
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Chaorong Chen
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Jiuyi Chen
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Yueyang Ni
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Xin Huang
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
Haishan Chen
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
State Key Laboratory for Climate System Predictions and Risk Management/Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China
Weidong Guo
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China
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Geosci. Model Dev., 19, 5553–5570, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-5553-2026, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-19-5553-2026, 2026
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Nan Wang, Hongyue Wang, Xin Huang, Xi Chen, Yu Zou, Tao Deng, Tingyuan Li, Xiaopu Lyu, and Fumo Yang
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Shanlei Sun, Zaoying Bi, Jingfeng Xiao, Yi Liu, Ge Sun, Weimin Ju, Chunwei Liu, Mengyuan Mu, Jinjian Li, Yang Zhou, Xiaoyuan Li, Yibo Liu, and Haishan Chen
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Chupeng Zhang, Shangfei Hai, Yang Gao, Yuhang Wang, Shaoqing Zhang, Lifang Sheng, Bin Zhao, Shuxiao Wang, Jingkun Jiang, Xin Huang, Xiaojing Shen, Junying Sun, Aura Lupascu, Manish Shrivastava, Jerome D. Fast, Wenxuan Cheng, Xiuwen Guo, Ming Chu, Nan Ma, Juan Hong, Qiaoqiao Wang, Xiaohong Yao, and Huiwang Gao
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 10713–10730, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10713-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10713-2023, 2023
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Guangdong Niu, Ximeng Qi, Liangduo Chen, Lian Xue, Shiyi Lai, Xin Huang, Jiaping Wang, Xuguang Chi, Wei Nie, Veli-Matti Kerminen, Tuukka Petäjä, Markku Kulmala, and Aijun Ding
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 7521–7534, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7521-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7521-2023, 2023
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The reported below-cloud wet-scavenging coefficients (BWSCs) are much higher than theoretical data, but the reason remains unclear. Based on long-term observation, we find that air mass changing during rainfall events causes the overestimation of BWSCs. Thus, the discrepancy in BWSCs between observation and theory is not as large as currently believed. To obtain reasonable BWSCs and parameterizations from field observations, the effect of air mass changes needs to be considered.
Chuanhua Ren, Xin Huang, Tengyu Liu, Yu Song, Zhang Wen, Xuejun Liu, Aijun Ding, and Tong Zhu
Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1641–1659, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1641-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1641-2023, 2023
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A process-based plant Carbon (C)-Nitrogen (N) interface coupling framework has been developed, which mainly focuses on the plant resistance and N limitation effects on photosynthesis, plant respiration, and plant phenology. A dynamic C / N ratio is introduced to represent plant resistance and self-adjustment. The framework has been implemented in a coupled biophysical-ecosystem-biogeochemical model and testing results show a general improvement in simulating plant properties with this framework.
Stephanie G. Stettz, Nicholas C. Parazoo, A. Anthony Bloom, Peter D. Blanken, David R. Bowling, Sean P. Burns, Cédric Bacour, Fabienne Maignan, Brett Raczka, Alexander J. Norton, Ian Baker, Mathew Williams, Mingjie Shi, Yongguang Zhang, and Bo Qiu
Biogeosciences, 19, 541–558, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-541-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-541-2022, 2022
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Uncertainty in the response of photosynthesis to temperature poses a major challenge to predicting the response of forests to climate change. In this paper, we study how photosynthesis in a mountainous evergreen forest is limited by temperature. This study highlights that cold temperature is a key factor that controls spring photosynthesis. Including the cold-temperature limitation in an ecosystem model improved its ability to simulate spring photosynthesis.
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Ground-level ozone can reduce plant growth, but models represent this damage in different ways. We tested six approaches in the same vegetation model for China during the 2010s. They estimated that ozone reduced plant carbon uptake by 17 % to 27 %, averaging about 21 %. Approaches based on broader observations and leaf traits matched measurements more closely, while using leaf lifespan improved how the model represented the accumulation and decline of ozone damage.
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