Forrest M. Hoffman¹, Nathan Collier¹, Mingquan Mu², Min Xu³, Cheng-En Yang⁴, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks⁵, David M Lawrence⁶, Charles Koven⁷, William J Riley⁷ and James Tremper Randerson⁸, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Earth Sciences, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)3317 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Knoxville, TN, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States