Soenke Zaehle

TL;DR: In this article, the ORCHIDEE land surface model is used to model the terrestrial phosphorus cycle and its interactions with the carbon cycle, and evaluate it with data from nutrient manipulation experiments along a soil formation chronosequence in Hawaii.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that high goodness-of-fit values do not necessarily indicate a successful model, because simulation accuracy may be achieved through compensating biases in component variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a suite of seven models to simulate the Duke and Oak Ridge Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiments extended for 300 years of CO2 enrichment, and determined key modeling assumptions that drive divergent projections of terrestrial carbon uptake and evaluate whether these assumptions can be constrained by experimental evidence.

TL;DR: Leaf Area Index represents the total surface area of leaves above a unit area of ground and is a key variable in any vegetation model, as well as in climate models.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new method of using satellite and inventory-based biomass observations to constrain historical cumulative LULCC emissions (ELUCc) from an ensemble of nine DGVMs based on emerging relationships between simulated vegetation biomass and ELUCc is proposed.