Benjamin Poulter, NASA GSFC, Biospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Thomas Pugh, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Leonardo Calle, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Washington DC, United States, Philippe Ciais, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, Christopher S R Neigh, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Paul Montesano, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Nuno Carvalhais, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany and Joseph O Sexton, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States