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Model description paper
| 
12 Feb 2016
Model description paper |
| 12 Feb 2016
A global scale mechanistic model of photosynthetic capacity (LUNA V1.0)
A. A. Ali
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California
Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
C. Xu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
A. Rogers
Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Brookhaven
National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA
R. A. Fisher
Climate and Global Dynamics, National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, Colorado, USA
S. D. Wullschleger
Climate Change Science Institute, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
E. C. Massoud
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California
Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
J. A. Vrugt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California
Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine,
California, USA
J. D. Muss
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
N. G. McDowell
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
J. B. Fisher
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
California, USA
P. B. Reich
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul,
Minnesota, USA
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney,
Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
C. J. Wilson
Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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Short summary
We have developed a mechanistic model of leaf utilization of nitrogen for assimilation (LUNA V1.0) to predict the photosynthetic capacities at the global scale based on the optimization of key leaf-level metabolic processes. LUNA model predicts that future climatic changes would mostly affect plant photosynthetic capabilities in high-latitude regions and that Earth system models using fixed photosynthetic capabilities are likely to substantially overestimate future global photosynthesis.
We have developed a mechanistic model of leaf utilization of nitrogen for assimilation (LUNA...
