Harmonising  plant functional type distributions for evaluating Earth system models

Dallmeyer, Anne; Claussen, Martin; Brovkin, Victor

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-335-2019

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-335-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-335-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 1

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18 Feb 2019

Research article | Highlight paper |

| 18 Feb 2019

Harmonising plant functional type distributions for evaluating Earth system models

Anne Dallmeyer, Martin Claussen, and Victor Brovkin

Data sets

Estimating historical changes in global land cover: croplands from 1700 to 1992 N. Ramankutty and J. A. Foley https://nelson.wisc.edu/sage/data-and-models/global-potential-vegetation/index.php

Model code and software

BIOME 6000 DB classified plotfile version 1 S. Harrison https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.99

Short summary

A simple but powerful method for the biomisation of plant functional type distributions is introduced and tested for six different dynamic global vegetation models based on pre-industrial and palaeo-simulations. The method facilitates the direct comparison between vegetation distributions simulated by different Earth system models and between model results and the pollen-based biome reconstructions. It is therefore a powerful tool for the evaluation of Earth system models.