Site ID:
PA-BCI
Site Name:
Barro Colorado Island (BCI)
Variables:
Model output
Date Range:
Sept. 3, 2021
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April 20, 2022
Description:
This dataset contains outputs from the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES) and accompanies the paper "Needham, J.F., Arellano, A., Davies, S.J., Fisher, R.A., Hammer, V., Knox, R., Mitre, D., Muller-Landau, H.C., Zuleta, D., Koven, C.D. Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest, 2022, Global Change Biology". Data are unprocessed netcdf file outputs from simulations that were run to test the effect of a new crown damage module in FATES. Specifically, this data package contains a sensitivity analysis to the carbon cushion parameter damage_Ccushion_ensemble_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-02.h0.ensemble.sofar.nc, a sensitivity analysis to the root nitrogen stoichiometry parameter damage_Nstoich_ensemble_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-02.h0.ensemble.sofar.nc, a sensitivity analysis to parameters controlling crown damage and recovery damage_recovery_ensemble_e1b5bd9_354f0b0_2021-09-02.h0.ensemble.sofar.nc, and a sensitivity analysis to the number of crown damage bins elm_fates_bci_*_damagebins.Eac53ccb80b-F8f994c29.2022-04-19.elm.h0.fullrun.nc. This data package also contains a high root nitrogen configuration of FATES, including both a control, and a crown damage simulation high_root_N_control_e1b5bd9_354f0b0_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc and high_root_N_damage_e1b5bd9_354f0b0_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc. There is an analogous low root nitrogen configuration of FATES, including a control, low_root_N_control_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc a damage only simulation low_root_N_damageonly_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc, a damage plus mortality simulation low_root_N_damage_mort_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc, and a mortality only simulation low_root_N_mort_only_e1b5bd9_ef845c8_2021-09-02.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc. Finally, there is a two PFT simulation in which we test the effect of recovery on competitive dynamics, low_root_N_damage_two_pfts_stoichastic_e1b5bd9_bf013ef_2021-09-10.clm2.h0.fullrun.nc. These simulations test the effect of representing crown damage in FATES, compared with simulations that have an equivalent increase in mortality. Jupyter notebooks to analyse these files can be found at https://github.com/JessicaNeedham/Needham_etal_GCB_2022_FATES_crown_damage.
QA/QC:
None
Methods Description:
Please see the related publication for methods details. In brief, the crown damage module reduces the crown area and crown biomass of damaged trees, altering forest biomass and canopy organisation.
All FATES source code is available at https://github.com/NGEET/fates. Commits used in simulations here are on JFN’s fork of the main FATES repository. High carbon starvation mortality configurations use commit 354f0b0c, low carbon starvation mortality configurations use commit bf013ef, and low carbon starvation mortality with mortality only use commit ef845c8, all from the branch JessicaNeedham-damage_recovery found here:
https://github.com/JessicaNeedham/fates/tree/JessicaNeedham-damage_recovery. The sensitivity to the number of crown damage classes used commit 8f994c2 on the branch JessicaNeedham-crowndamage_module found here:
https://github.com/JessicaNeedham/fates/tree/JessicaNeedham-crowndamage_module
Access Level:
Public
Originating Institution(s):
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sponsor Organization(s):
None
Contact:
Needham, Jessica - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (jfneedham@lbl.gov)
Needham, J.F., Arellano, A., Davies, S.J., Fisher, R.A., Hammer, V., Knox, R., Mitre, D., Muller-Landau, H.C., Zuleta, D., Koven, C.D. Tree crown damage and its effects on forest carbon cycling in a tropical forest, 2022, Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16318
