Project Funding: 2006 - 2014

NRA: 2005 NASA: North American Carbon Program   

Funded by NASA

Abstract:
The North American Carbon Program (NACP) is designed to quantify the magnitudes and distributions of carbon sources and sinks, explain the processes controlling them, and produce a consistent analysis of North America's carbon budget. To accomplish these ambitious goals, NACP requires an integrated data and information management system that will enable researchers to access, understand, use, and analyze large volumes of diverse data at multiple thematic, temporal, and spatial scales. The Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MAST-DC) is an integral component of the NACP data system and will support NACP by providing data products and data management services needed for modeling and synthesis activities. The overall objective of MAST-DC is to provide advanced data management support to NACP investigators and agencies performing modeling and synthesis activities. Based on specific requirements established by NACP, we will provide data products for modeling and synthesis in consistent and uniform grids, projections, and formats. The specific tasks of MAST-DC are (1) coordinate data management activities with NACP modelers and synthesis groups; (2) prepare and distribute model input data; (3) provide data management support for model outputs; (4) provide tools for accessing, subsetting and visualization; (5) provide data packages to evaluate model output; and (6) support synthesis activities, including data support for workshops. MAST-DC will provide data products and services required by NACP in a central location, with common and co-registered spatial projection, in easily converted formats. The MAST-DC will free modelers and those doing the synthesis and integration from having to perform data management functions. Consequently the MAST-DC will enable NACP participants to conduct their work more readily, facilitate the development of new model products needed by models, and assist in gaining new insights into the carbon cycle in North America.

Publications:

Huntzinger, D. N., Schwalm, C., Michalak, A. M., Schaefer, K., King, A. W., Wei, Y., Jacobson, A., Liu, S., Cook, R. B., Post, W. M., Berthier, G., Hayes, D., Huang, M., Ito, A., Lei, H., Lu, C., Mao, J., Peng, C. H., Peng, S., Poulter, B., Riccuito, D., Shi, X., Tian, H., Wang, W., Zeng, N., Zhao, F., Zhu, Q. 2013. The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project - Part 1: Overview and experimental design. Geoscientific Model Development. 6(6), 2121-2133. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-2121-2013

Liu, S., Wei, Y., Post, W. M., Cook, R. B., Schaefer, K., Thornton, M. M. 2013. The Unified North American Soil Map and its implication on the soil organic carbon stock in North America. Biogeosciences. 10(5), 2915-2930. DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-2915-2013

Richardson, A. D., Anderson, R. S., Arain, M. A., Barr, A. G., Bohrer, G., Chen, G., Chen, J. M., Ciais, P., Davis, K. J., Desai, A. R., Dietze, M. C., Dragoni, D., Garrity, S. R., Gough, C. M., Grant, R., Hollinger, D. Y., Margolis, H. A., McCaughey, H., Migliavacca, M., Monson, R. K., Munger, J. W., Poulter, B., Raczka, B. M., Ricciuto, D. M., Sahoo, A. K., Schaefer, K., Tian, H., Vargas, R., Verbeeck, H., Xiao, J., Xue, Y. 2011. Terrestrial biosphere models need better representation of vegetation phenology: results from the North American Carbon Program Site Synthesis. Global Change Biology. 18(2), 566-584. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02562.x

Dietze, M. C., Vargas, R., Richardson, A. D., Stoy, P. C., Barr, A. G., Anderson, R. S., Arain, M. A., Baker, I. T., Black, T. A., Chen, J. M., Ciais, P., Flanagan, L. B., Gough, C. M., Grant, R. F., Hollinger, D., Izaurralde, R. C., Kucharik, C. J., Lafleur, P., Liu, S., Lokupitiya, E., Luo, Y., Munger, J. W., Peng, C., Poulter, B., Price, D. T., Ricciuto, D. M., Riley, W. J., Sahoo, A. K., Schaefer, K., Suyker, A. E., Tian, H., Tonitto, C., Verbeeck, H., Verma, S. B., Wang, W., Weng, E. 2011. Characterizing the performance of ecosystem models across time scales: A spectral analysis of the North American Carbon Program site-level synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 116(G4). DOI: 10.1029/2011JG001661

Schwalm, C. R., Williams, C. A., Schaefer, K., Anderson, R., Arain, M. A., Baker, I., Barr, A., Black, T. A., Chen, G., Chen, J. M., Ciais, P., Davis, K. J., Desai, A., Dietze, M., Dragoni, D., Fischer, M. L., Flanagan, L. B., Grant, R., Gu, L., Hollinger, D., Izaurralde, R. C., Kucharik, C., Lafleur, P., Law, B. E., Li, L., Li, Z., Liu, S., Lokupitiya, E., Luo, Y., Ma, S., Margolis, H., Matamala, R., McCaughey, H., Monson, R. K., Oechel, W. C., Peng, C., Poulter, B., Price, D. T., Riciutto, D. M., Riley, W., Sahoo, A. K., Sprintsin, M., Sun, J., Tian, H., Tonitto, C., Verbeeck, H., Verma, S. B. 2010. A model-data intercomparison of CO2exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research. 115. DOI: 10.1029/2009jg001229

Schaefer, K., Schwalm, C. R., Williams, C., Arain, M. A., Barr, A., Chen, J. M., Davis, K. J., Dimitrov, D., Hilton, T. W., Hollinger, D. Y., Humphreys, E., Poulter, B., Raczka, B. M., Richardson, A. D., Sahoo, A., Thornton, P., Vargas, R., Verbeeck, H., Anderson, R., Baker, I., Black, T. A., Bolstad, P., Chen, J., Curtis, P. S., Desai, A. R., Dietze, M., Dragoni, D., Gough, C., Grant, R. F., Gu, L., Jain, A., Kucharik, C., Law, B., Liu, S., Lokipitiya, E., Margolis, H. A., Matamala, R., McCaughey, J. H., Monson, R., Munger, J. W., Oechel, W., Peng, C., Price, D. T., Ricciuto, D., Riley, W. J., Roulet, N., Tian, H., Tonitto, C., Torn, M., Weng, E., Zhou, X. 2012. A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 117(G3). DOI: 10.1029/2012JG001960

Raczka, B. M., Davis, K. J., Huntzinger, D., Neilson, R. P., Poulter, B., Richardson, A. D., Xiao, J., Baker, I., Ciais, P., Keenan, T. F., Law, B., Post, W. M., Ricciuto, D., Schaefer, K., Tian, H., Tomelleri, E., Verbeeck, H., Viovy, N. 2013. Evaluation of continental carbon cycle simulations with North American flux tower observations. Ecological Monographs. 83(4), 531-556. DOI: 10.1890/12-0893.1

Hayes, D. J., Turner, D. P., Stinson, G., McGuire, A. D., Wei, Y., West, T. O., Heath, L. S., Jong, B., McConkey, B. G., Birdsey, R. A., Kurz, W. A., Jacobson, A. R., Huntzinger, D. N., Pan, Y., Post, W. M., Cook, R. B. 2012. Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data. Global Change Biology. 18(4), 1282-1299. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02627.x

Huntzinger, D. N., Post, W. M., Wei, Y., Michalak, A. M., West, T. O., Jacobson, A. R., Baker, I. T., Chen, J. M., Davis, K. J., Hayes, D. J., Hoffman, F. M., Jain, A. K., Liu, S., McGuire, A. D., Neilson, R. P., Potter, C., Poulter, B., Price, D., Raczka, B. M., Tian, H. Q., Thornton, P., Tomelleri, E., Viovy, N., Xiao, J., Yuan, W., Zeng, N., Zhao, M., Cook, R. 2012. North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison. Ecological Modelling. 232, 144-157. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.02.004

Santos, E., Poco, J., Wei, Y., Liu, S., Cook, B., Williams, D. N., Silva, C. T. 2013. UV-CDAT: Analyzing Climate Datasets from a User's Perspective. Computing in Science & Engineering. 15(1), 94-103. DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2013.15

Stoy, P. C., Dietze, M. C., Richardson, A. D., Vargas, R., Barr, A. G., Anderson, R. S., Arain, M. A., Baker, I. T., Black, T. A., Chen, J. M., Cook, R. B., Gough, C. M., Grant, R. F., Hollinger, D. Y., Izaurralde, R. C., Kucharik, C. J., Lafleur, P., Law, B. E., Liu, S., Lokupitiya, E., Luo, Y., Munger, J. W., Peng, C., Poulter, B., Price, D. T., Ricciuto, D. M., Riley, W. J., Sahoo, A. K., Schaefer, K., Schwalm, C. R., Tian, H., Verbeeck, H., Weng, E. 2013. Evaluating the agreement between measurements and models of net ecosystem exchange at different times and timescales using wavelet coherence: an example using data from the North American Carbon Program Site-Level Interim Synthesis. Biogeosciences. 10(11), 6893-6909. DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-6893-2013

Barr, A. G., Richardson, A. D., Hollinger, D. Y., Papale, D., Arain, M. A., Black, T. A., Bohrer, G., Dragoni, D., Fischer, M. L., Gu, L., Law, B. E., Margolis, H. A., McCaughey, J. H., Munger, J. W., Oechel, W., Schaeffer, K. 2013. Use of change-point detection for friction-velocity threshold evaluation in eddy-covariance studies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 171-172, 31-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2012.11.023

Wei, Y., Liu, S., Huntzinger, D. N., Michalak, A. M., Viovy, N., Post, W. M., Schwalm, C. R., Schaefer, K., Jacobson, A. R., Lu, C., Tian, H., Ricciuto, D. M., Cook, R. B., Mao, J., Shi, X. 2014. The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project - Part 2: Environmental driver data. Geoscientific Model Development. 7(6), 2875-2893. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-2875-2014

Vizcarra, N. 2013. The secrets of leaves. In: Sensing Our Planet: NASA Earth Science Research Features 2013, accessed January 30, 2014. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/featured-stories/featured-research/secrets-leaves. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/user-resources/sensing-our-planet/the-secrets-of-leaves

2015 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

• The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project: Environmental driver data   --   (Yaxing Wei, Shishi Liu, Deborah Nicole Huntzinger, Anna M Michalak, Nicolas Viovy, Wilfred M. Post, Christopher R Schwalm, Kevin M Schaefer, Andrew R Jacobson, Chaoqun Lu, Hanqin Tian, Daniel Ricciuto, Robert B. Cook, Jiafu Mao, Xiaoying Shi)   [abstract]

2013 NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting Poster(s)

• A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program   --   (Yaxing Wei, Robert B. Cook, Wilfred M. Post, Peter E. Thornton, Deborah Nicole Huntzinger, Daniel Ricciuto, Daniel Hayes, Michele M. Thornton, Shishi Liu, Andy Jacobson, Kevin M Schaefer, Kenneth James Davis)   [abstract]

2011 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

• Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP): 2. Environmental Driver Data   --   (Yaxing Wei, Robert B. Cook, Deborah Nicole Huntzinger, Wilfred M. Post, Kevin M Schaefer, Andy Jacobson, Anna M Michalak, Shishi Liu)   [abstract]
• Daymet: Gridded subdaily weather data for North America   --   (Michele M Thornton, Peter E. Thornton, Robert B. Cook, Yaxing Wei, Suresh Kumar Santhana Vannan, Peter I. Eby, Ranjeet Devarakonda)   [abstract]
• A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program   --   (Robert B. Cook, Wilfred M. Post, Peter E. Thornton, Yaxing Wei, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Daniel M Ricciuto, Daniel J. Hayes, Andy Jacobson, Kevin M Schaefer, Kenneth James Davis, Michele M. Thornton, Barbara L. Jackson, Shihi Liu)   [abstract]

2010 NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting Poster(s)

• A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program   --   (Robert Cook, W. Mac Post, Peter Thornton, Deborah Huntzinger, Dan Ricciuto, Andrew Jacobson, Kevin Schaeffer, Kenneth Davis, Michele Thornton, Lisa Olsen, Barbara L. Jacson)   [abstract]   [poster]

2008 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Posters

• Modeling and Synthesis Support for the North American Carbon Program   --   (Robert B. Cook, Peter E. Thornton, W. M. Post, Bruce E. Wilson, Latha M. Baskaran)   [abstract]

More details may be found in the following project profile(s):

• NASA Terrestrial Ecology (TE) Project Profile
• North American Carbon Program (NACP) Project Profile