LEI MA¹, George C Hurtt², Lesley E Ott³, Ritvik Sahajpal⁴, Justin Fisk⁵, Steve Flanagan⁶, Benjamin Poulter⁷, Liang Shunlin⁵ and Joseph Sullivan⁸, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (6)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Biospheric Science, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Maryland, Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, College Park, MD, United States