Articles | Volume 10, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1265-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1265-2018
13 Jul 2018
 | 13 Jul 2018

Biophysics and vegetation cover change: a process-based evaluation framework for confronting land surface models with satellite observations

Gregory Duveiller, Giovanni Forzieri, Eddy Robertson, Wei Li, Goran Georgievski, Peter Lawrence, Andy Wiltshire, Philippe Ciais, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, Almut Arneth, and Alessandro Cescatti

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Biophysical effects of vegetation cover change from satellite and models G. Duveiller, G. Forzieri, E. Robertson, W. Li, G. Georgievski, P. Lawrence, A. Wiltshire, P. Ciais, J. Pongratz, S. Sitch, A. Arneth, and A. Cescatti https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1182145

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Changing the vegetation cover of the Earth's surface can alter the local energy balance, which can result in a local warming or cooling depending on the specific vegetation transition, its timing and location, as well as on the background climate. While models can theoretically simulate these effects, their skill is not well documented across space and time. Here we provide a dedicated framework to evaluate such models against measurements derived from satellite observations.