PLUMBER2 land model benchmarking experiment

[David Kirschtel]

Dear hydrology community,

We are beginning a land model comparison project based on simulations at 170 flux tower sites as a follow-on from the PLUMBER MIP.

The experiment will have a very broad focus, using empirical models and/or information theory approaches to benchmark surface energy fluxes (latent and sensible heat flux), momentum flux, and carbon fluxes and investigate how a range of modelling assumptions affect simulations. Participants to date are mostly from the land surface modelling community, with models using 30-60 minute time steps, but we are interested in broadening this include other models that simulate at least some of these fluxes, including hydrology and ecology models, at time steps as large as daily.

If you or a group you know might be interested in participating, details can be found in the PLUMBER2 protocol document. Note that participation will require reading and writing netcdf files in ALMA and/or CF-netcdf format and interacting through modelevaluation.org. Analysis of submissions will begin in November.

Any questions welcome.

Thanks

Gab

Gab Abramowitz

Associate Professor

Climate Change Research Centre and

ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes

UNSW Australia

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