Importance of Multiscale Benchmarking for the FATES Vegetation Demography Model: Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Jennifer Kowalczyk1, Marcos Longo2, Charlie Koven3, Jessica Needham2, Ryan Knox3, Namfon Carroll2,4, Gilberto Pastorello1, Huanyuan Zhang-Zheng5, Yadvinder Malhi6 and Jeff Chambers7, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (4)Berkeley City College, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States