Land Model and Biogeochemistry Working Group Meeting 2025

Agenda Track
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2025 Land Model and Biogeochemistry Agenda

Monday, February 24th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room and Online

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Welcome and logistics

LMWG Overview and Outlook

Will Wieder

 

Discussion

Investigating the limited role of land on atmospheric predictability in CESM2

Meg Fowler

Validation of CESM Land–Atmosphere Coupling Using Observationally Derived Metrics

Nazanin Tavakoli

 

Discussion 

Break

CGD Seminar 

Susannah Burrows

 

Lunch (on your own)

 

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Trait-Based Vegetation Optical Properties Impact Future Climate Projections

Renato Braghiere (Remote)

Soil Moisture Depletion Experiments to Study Teleconnections in the Western United States

Lily N. Zhang (Remote)

 

The underestimated runoff decline to warming in climate models

Hanjun Kim (Remote)

Deriving historical dust emission variability with sedimentary core records using an inverse analysis approach

Danny Leung

Is water availability from the land surface in arid/semi-arid regions mis-represented in CESM?

Isla Simpson

 

Discussion

 

Break

Photosynthetic responses to changes in plant water use strategy depend on atmospheric feedbacks & modify the magnitude of response to elevated CO2

Amy Liu (Remote)

Robust Impacts of Land Use Land Cover Change on Regional Precipitation

Montasir Maruf (Remote)

Stem heat storage in broad-leaved forests: modeling using ground lidar, and its role in the energy balance closure

Martin Beland (Remote)

The Chemistry-Climate Biogeophysical Response to Tree Restoration

Robert Allen

 

Thoughts on modeling plant canopies: Insights from the Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS)

Gordon Bonan

 

Discussion & Adjourn

 

Agenda Track

Tuesday, February 25th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room and Online

Welcome and logistics

 

FATES Land use change and model initialization updates

Charlie Koven

 

 

FATES-SP Calibration at NEON tundra sites

Katya Jay

 

Model validation and sensitivity analysis on tropical dry forest response to nutrient fertilization

Shuyue Li

 

 

The Impact of Plant Water Stress and Stomatal Conductance Configurations on Canopy Transpiration in Temperate Needleleaf Evergreen Trees

Zhiyi Zhou

 

 

Discussion

 

Break

Overlooking plant physiological processes in land surface models: how lumping tree species across scales undermine key information of forest functioning under stress

Cesar Jimenez- Rodriguez (Remote)

Enhancing Global-scale Urban Land Cover Representation Using Local Climate Zones in the Community Earth System Model

Yuan Sun (Remote)

Large-scale Agrivoltaics Provide a Sustainable Solution for the Food-Energy-Water Nexus in the Midwestern United States

Mengqi Jia (Remote)

Simulating impacts of cropland management on heat extreme exposures

Marian Hsieh

 

Discussion

 

Lunch (on your own + optional discussion in Damon Room)

 

Improving land model simulation of natural streamflow through sensitivity analysis and parameter optimization

Ahmed Elkouk (Remote)

Sparse data and explainable machine learning to evaluate Earth System Models

Abby Shaum (Remote)

Understanding the role of different parameterizations and parameters in calculating evapotranspiration: Insights from 140 flux towers.

Ignacio Aguirre Belmar

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

Leveraging the CLM5 PPE to Select Parameters for a Coupled CESM PPE

Ben Buchovecky

 

Parameter Perturbation Shows the Importance of Functional Diversity in Moderating Ecosystem Biogeochemistry

Evan Margiotta

 

Tuning CLM6

Linnia Hawkins

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

 

Tracers in river model - concept, implementation, and example run

Naoki Mizukami

 

Embracing your Inner Research Software Engineer (RSE); Working Together with CTSM RSE's to improve CTSM Science

Erik Kluzek

 

"Off-Off-line" Testing of Your Model: Why and How you Should Do it

 Adrianna Foster

 

CUPiD updates for CESM and the LMWG

Teagan King, Mike Levy, others
 

Discussion

 

Adjourn

 

Agenda Track

Wednesday, February 26th

Mesa Lab Main Seminar Room and Virtual

Welcome and logistics

 

Evaluating carbon dioxide removal approaches in integrated assessment models

Scott Doney (Remote)

The constraint of denitrification and nitrogen leaching fluxes in the CLM

Jinmu Luo (Remote)

Evaluating Responses of CO2 Fertilization on Volcanically Active Tropical Ecosystems

Lianlei Fu (Remote)

Modeling Terrestrial Mercury Dynamics with SiBCASA: Implications for the Earth System

Christine Olson

 

Assessing the influence of soil biogeochemistry on reproducing land carbon stocks in response to an interactive global change experiment

Katie Rocci

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

Emissions-Driven CESM for Investigating Carbon and Climate Responses to Historical and Future Scenarios

Peter Lawrence

 

First results from CESM-HOPE

Nikki Lovenduski

 

Land carbon sinks under zero emissions and decarbonization

Abby Swann

 

Tracking the imprint and impact of spatiotemporal variability of emissions

Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

 

Discussion

 

Lunch (on your own)

 

Tutorial on emission driven simulations.


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