John M Stark¹, Megan Nasto², Kirsten Butcher¹ and Jeanette M Norton³, (1)Utah State University, Department of Biology, and the Ecology Center, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Department of Biology and the Ecology Center, Logan, MT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils, & Climate, Logan, UT, UT, United States

Kimberly A Novick¹, Michael Contie Benson¹, Sander Olivia Denham², Richard Phillips³ and Koong Yi⁴, (1)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (2)Indiana University - Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States, (3)Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States

James Tremper Randerson¹, Paul Alexander Levine², Yang Chen¹, Niels Andela³ and Douglas C Morton³, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Debora Regina Roberti, Gustavo Pujol Veeck, Tiago Bremm, Cristiano Maboni, Ricardo Acosta, Gisele Cristina Rubert, Vanessa De Arruda Souza, Tamires Zimmer and Lidiane Buligon, UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil

Mao-Chang Liang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Amzad Hussain Laskar, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Eugeni Barkan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel, Sally Newman, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Mark H Thiemens, University of California San Diego, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, CA, United States and Ravi Rangarajan, St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Anders Lindroth¹, Jutta Holst², Mika Aurela³, Michal Heliasz², Jinshu Chi⁴, Andreas Ibrom⁵, Pasi Kolari⁶, Leif Klemedtsson⁷, Tuomas J A Laurila⁸, Maj-Lena Linderson⁹, Ivan Mammarella¹⁰, Meelis Mölder¹, Matthias Peichl¹¹, Kim Pilegaard¹², Timo Vesala¹⁰, Per Weslien¹³ and Patrik Vestin⁹, (1)Lund University, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden, (2)Lund University, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, Lund, Sweden, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (4)Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden, (5)Technical University of Denmark, Department of Environmental Engineering, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (7)University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, (8)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki 76, Finland, (9)Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (10)University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, Helsinki, Finland, (11)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Umeå, Sweden, (12)Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, (13)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden

Caroline Famiglietti, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Anna M Michalak, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States and Alexandra G. Konings, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States

Simon Besnard^1,2, Nuno Carvalhais^1,3, Markus Reichstein¹, Martin Jung¹, Fabian Gans¹, Ulrich Weber¹, Martin Herold² and Jan Clevers², (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, (2)Wageningen University and Research Center, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, Lisbon, Portugal

Kaizad F. Patel¹, Cooper G Norris², Vanessa Bailey¹, Jianqiu Zheng¹, Ben P Bond-Lamberty³, Sarah Fansler¹ and Kenton Alan Rod¹, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States

Yanzi Yan¹, Stefan Olin¹, Magnus Persson², Petter Pilesjö¹, Feng Tian¹, Zhendong Wu¹, Minchao Wu³, Wenxin Zhang¹, Antje Gärtner¹ and Anders Ahlström¹, (1)Lund University, Department of physical geography and ecosystem science, Lund, Sweden, (2)Lund University, Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, LTH, Lund, Sweden, (3)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden

Alienor Lavergne¹, Heather D Graven² and Iain Colin Prentice¹, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom

Zhen Zhang^1,2, Xiaozhou Xin², Chuanxiang Yi³, Zhiqing Peng^1,2 and Liu Qinhuo², (1)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science,Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth ,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Yancheng meteorological bureau，Jiangsu, Yancheng, China

Gerald N Flerchinger, USDA Agriculture Research Service, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Aaron Fellows, Agricultural Research Service Boise, Boise, ID, United States, Mark S Seyfried, USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID, United States, Pat Clark, USDA Agriculture Research Service, Boise, ID, United States and Kathleen A Lohse, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

Tianshan Zha¹, Jingyong Ma², Bourque Charles³, Xin Jia¹, Yun Tian⁴, Yujie Bai⁴, Peng Liu⁴, Ruizhi Yang⁴, Cheng Li⁴, Chunyi Li⁵, Jing Xie⁶, Haiqun Yu⁶, Feng Zhang⁶ and Caixian Zhou⁶, (1)Beijing Forestry University, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing 100083, China, (2)Beijing Forestry University, School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing City, China, (3)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, (4)Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, (5)Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China, (6)Beijing Forestry Carbon Administration, Beijing, China

Maribel Herrera¹, Diego Riveros-Iregui¹, Andrew Roderick Murray², Andrea Encalada³, Esteban Suarez³ and Gonzalo Rivas-Torres³, (1)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, (3)Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Quito, Ecuador

Daeun Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South), Muhammad Umair, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea, Ungtae Kim, Cleveland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cleveland, OH, United States, Younghyun Cho, K-Water, Daejeon, South Korea, Ram L Ray, Prairie View A & M University, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, Prairie View, TX, United States and Minha Choi, Sungkyunkwan University, Environment and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea

Yanlan Liu¹, Mukesh Kumar², Gabriel George Katul³, Xue Feng⁴ and Alexandra G. Konings¹, (1)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)The University of Alabama, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (3)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Mengjie Wang, Yunhao Chen, Xiuchen WU, Fangzhong Shi and Ke Yu, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China

Siul Ruiz¹, Samuel Bickel², Peter Lehmann³ and Dani Or³, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP), Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Zurich, Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP), Zürich, Switzerland

Swati Gehlot¹, Stefan Hagemann² and Victor Brovkin¹, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Heimholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany

Gustau Camps-Valls¹, Emiliano Diaz², Jose Adsuara³, Maria Piles², Alvaro Moreno², Pierre Gentine⁴, Martin Jung⁵, Markus Reichstein⁵ and Steven W Running⁶, (1)University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain, (2)Universitat de València, València, Spain, (3)Universitat de València, Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), València, Spain, (4)Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, (6)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG), Missoula, MT, United States

Kailiang Yu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Ashley Ballantyne, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, Thomas W Crowther, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Gabriel George Katul, Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States, Han Y.H. Chen, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, Thomas Pugh, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Eric B. Searle, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada, Arthur Gessler, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Hans Pretzsch, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany and Philippe Ciais, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France

Shintaro Fujimori, University Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan and Hyungjun Kim, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Tokyo, Japan

Noah Handwerk, Clemmons, NC, United States, Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, Trent Ford, Southern Illinois University, Geography and Environmental Resources, Carbondale, IL, United States and Jason Otkin, University of Wisconsin Madison, CIMSS/SSEC, Madison, WI, United States

Francois Ritter, Max B Berkelhammer and Cynthia Garcia-Eidell, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

David Gampe and Wolfgang Buermann, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany

Trevor Romich, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States and Jennifer Y King, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Edward John Primka IV¹, Thomas S Adams², Alexandra S. Orr³, Warren Reed⁴, Jason P Kaye⁵ and David M Eissenstat², (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, University Park, PA, United States, (4)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, (5)Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, State College, PA, United States

Ram L Ray¹, Yiping He², Daeun Kim³, Minha Choi⁴, Ripendra Awal⁵, Eric Risch⁵ and Ali Fares⁶, (1)Prairie View A & M University, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, Prairie View, TX, United States, (2)Enxco, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea, (4)Sungkyunkwan University, Environment and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, (5)Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX, United States, (6)Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX, United States

Chia-Wei Lan, Min-Hui Lo and Rong-Yu Gu, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

Jacob A Nelson, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Sujan Koirala, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany and Mirco Migliavacca, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany

Christa Torrens¹, Diane M McKnight² and Michael N Gooseff¹, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States

Weichao Guo¹, Mohammad Safeeq², Roger C Bales¹, Guotao Cui¹ and Qin Ma¹, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States

Matthew Roby, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Russell L Scott, USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States and David JP Moore, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States

Gonzalo Miguez-Macho, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Department of Physics, Santiago de Compostela, Spain and Ying Fan, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States

Eli R Perez-Ruiz, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States and Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States

Brian Bailey, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States

Ellen JoAnne Stuart-Haëntjens¹, Brady S Hardiman², Robert Timothy Fahey³, Gil Bohrer⁴, Camilo Rey Sanchez⁵, Susan J Cheng⁶, Timothy Hector Morin⁷, Peter Curtis⁷, Christoph S Vogel⁸ and Christopher Michael Gough⁹, (1)Virginia Commonwealth University, Integrative Life Sciences, Richmond, VA, United States, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States, (4)Ohio State University, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)Ohio State University Main Campus, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (6)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, NY, United States, (7)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (8)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (9)VCU-Biology, Richmond, VA, United States