Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle

Joshua Fisher (1) , Daniel Hayes (2) , Christopher Schwalm (3) , Deborah Huntzinger (3) , Eric Stofferahn (4) , Kevin Schaefer (5) , Yiqi Luo (6) , Stan Wullschleger (7) , Scott Goetz (3) , Charles Miller (4) , Peter Griffith (8) , Sarah Chadburn (9) , Abhishek Chatterjee (10, 8) , Philippe Ciais (11) , Thomas Douglas , Hélène Genet (12) , Akihiko Ito (13) , Christopher Neigh (8) , Benjamin Poulter (14) , Brendan Rogers , Oliver Sonnentag (15) , Hanqin Tian (16) , Weile Wang (17, 18) , Yongkang Xue (19) , Zong-Liang Yang (20) , Ning Zeng (21) , Zhen Zhang (22)

1 University of Oxford
2 Cyprus Oceanography Center
3 Northern Arizona University [Flagstaff]
4 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 CIRES - Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
6 OU - University of Oklahoma
7 ORNL - Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Oak Ridge]
8 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
9 EMPS - College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences [Exeter]
10 USRA - Universities Space Research Association [Washington]
11 ICOS-ATC - ICOS-ATC
12 Institute of Arctic Biology
13 NIES - National Institute for Environmental Studies
14 MSU - Montana State University
15 Department of Geography
16 AU - Auburn University
17 ARC - NASA Ames Research Center
18 CSUMB - California State University [Monterey Bay]
19 Department of Geography [Los Angeles]
20 JSG - Jackson School of Geosciences
21 IAP - Institute of Atmospheric Physics [Beijing]
22 University of Maryland [College Park]

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.

Domaines: Océan, Atmosphère; Interfaces continentales, environnement

Joshua Fisher, Daniel Hayes, Christopher Schwalm, Deborah Huntzinger, Eric Stofferahn, et al.. Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle. Environmental Research Letters, 2018, 13 (2), pp.020202. ⟨10.1088/1748-9326/aa9d9a⟩. ⟨hal-02903419⟩