Observation based benchmarks may improve representation of soil organic carbon dynamics in Land Surface Models

Kamal Nyaupane, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States, Sagar Gautam, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational Biology and Biophysics, Livermore, CA, United States and Umakant Mishra, Sandia National Laboratories, Computational Biology and Biophysics, Albuquerque, NM, United States