Jinyang Du¹, John Kimball¹, Isabella Velicogna², Meng Zhao², Lucas A Jones¹, Jennifer Watts³, Youngwook Kim¹ and Geruo A², (1)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States