Abstract
Gross primary production (GPP) measures the photosynthetic update of carbon by terrestrial ecosystems. Accurately quantifying and simulating GPP and its extremes remains a challenge in global carbon cycle sciences. Here, we evaluate GPP extremes in a coupled biogeochemistry (BGC) simulation by the Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SMv1.1) using the Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution statistical model. The simulation is evaluated against the Global Bio-Atmosphere Flux (GBAF) data. Temporal trends and ENSO dependence are also investigated by using GEV models where time and the Niño3.4 index are introduced as linear covariates. The E3SMv1.1 model simulation generally predicts stronger negative and positive GPP extremes as compared to GBAF data. It also tends to simulate stronger temporal trends of GPP extremes than GBAF data. While negative GPP extreme trends are not significant in either E3SM or GBAF, positive GPP trends are statistically significant over several regions only for the E3SMv1.1 model simulation. ENSO dependence is generally stronger in the E3SMv1.1 model simulation, but ENSO dependence is found not to be significant for the time period analyzed (1980-2006) to match GBAF data. For the longer simulation period of 1900-2006, ENSO dependence is found to be statistically significant over Amazon, the maritime continent and Northern Australia for both negative and positive extremes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2019 |
Editors | Panagiotis Papapetrou, Xueqi Cheng, Qing He |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Pages | 303-310 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728146034 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2019 |
Event | 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2019 - Beijing, China Duration: Nov 8 2019 → Nov 11 2019 |
Publication series
Name | IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW |
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Volume | 2019-November |
ISSN (Print) | 2375-9232 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2375-9259 |
Conference
Conference | 19th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW 2019 |
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Country/Territory | China |
City | Beijing |
Period | 11/8/19 → 11/11/19 |
Funding
We thank DOE E3SM CBGC simulation group for coordinating experiments and conducting simulations. This research was supported through the Reducing Uncertainties in Biogeochemical Interactions through Synthesis and Computation Scientific Focus Area (RUBISCO SFA), which are sponsored by the Climate and Environmental Sciences Division (CESD) of the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which are supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 and DE-AC05-00OR22725 respectively.
Keywords
- Carbon cycle
- Carbon extremes
- GEV statistical model
- Terrestrial ecosystem