Environmental Research Letters (Jan 2018)
Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle
- Joshua B Fisher,
- Daniel J Hayes,
- Christopher R Schwalm,
- Deborah N Huntzinger,
- Eric Stofferahn,
- Kevin Schaefer,
- Yiqi Luo,
- Stan D Wullschleger,
- Scott Goetz,
- Charles E Miller,
- Peter Griffith,
- Sarah Chadburn,
- Abhishek Chatterjee,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Thomas A Douglas,
- Hélène Genet,
- Akihiko Ito,
- Christopher S R Neigh,
- Benjamin Poulter,
- Brendan M Rogers,
- Oliver Sonnentag,
- Hanqin Tian,
- Weile Wang,
- Yongkang Xue,
- Zong-Liang Yang,
- Ning Zeng,
- Zhen Zhang
Affiliations
- Joshua B Fisher
- ORCiD
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109, United States of America; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.
- Daniel J Hayes
- School of Forest Resources , University of Maine, 233 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME, 4469–5755, United States of America
- Christopher R Schwalm
- Woods Hole Research Center , 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, 02540-1644, United States of America
- Deborah N Huntzinger
- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability , Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5694, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5697, United States of America
- Eric Stofferahn
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109, United States of America
- Kevin Schaefer
- National Snow and Ice Data Center , Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1540 30th Street #376, Boulder, CO, 80303, United States of America
- Yiqi Luo
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology , University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019, United States of America
- Stan D Wullschleger
- Environmental Sciences Division , Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831-6301, United States of America
- Scott Goetz
- School of Informatics , Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, PO Box 5693, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011-5693, United States of America
- Charles E Miller
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory , California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, 91109, United States of America
- Peter Griffith
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD, 20771, United States of America
- Sarah Chadburn
- University of Leeds , School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Abhishek Chatterjee
- ORCiD
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD, 20771, United States of America; Universities Space Research Association , 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD, 21046, United States of America
- Philippe Ciais
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement , Orme des Merisiers, bat. 701—Point courier 129, 91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
- Thomas A Douglas
- US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory , Fort Wainwright, AK, 99703, United States of America
- Hélène Genet
- Institute of Arctic Biology , University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, United States of America
- Akihiko Ito
- National Institute for Environmental Studies , Tsukuba, 3058506, Japan
- Christopher S R Neigh
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD, 20771, United States of America
- Benjamin Poulter
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, MD, 20771, United States of America
- Brendan M Rogers
- Woods Hole Research Center , 149 Woods Hole Road, Falmouth, MA, 02540-1644, United States of America
- Oliver Sonnentag
- Université de Montréal , Département de géographie and Centre d’études nordiques, 520 Chemin de la Côte Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC, H2V 2B8, Canada
- Hanqin Tian
- International Center for Climate and Global Change Research , School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, 602 Duncan Drive, Auburn, AL, 36849, United States of America
- Weile Wang
- NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, CA, 94035, United States of America; California State University Monterey Bay , Seaside, CA, 93955, United States of America
- Yongkang Xue
- Department of Geography , University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 900945, United States of America
- Zong-Liang Yang
- Department of Geological Sciences , Jackson School of Geosciences, 1 University Station #C1100, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-0254, United States of America
- Ning Zeng
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science , University of Maryland, 2417 Computer and Space Sciences Building, College Park, MD, 20742-2425, United States of America
- Zhen Zhang
- Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland , College Park, MD 20740, United States of America
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 2
p. 020202
Abstract
NASA has launched the decade-long Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). While the initial phases focus on field and airborne data collection, early integration with modeling activities is important to benefit future modeling syntheses. We compiled feedback from ecosystem modeling teams on key data needs, which encompass carbon biogeochemistry, vegetation, permafrost, hydrology, and disturbance dynamics. A suite of variables was identified as part of this activity with a critical requirement that they are collected concurrently and representatively over space and time. Individual projects in ABoVE may not capture all these needs, and thus there is both demand and opportunity for the augmentation of field observations, and synthesis of the observations that are collected, to ensure that science questions and integrated modeling activities are successfully implemented.
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