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  • Biogeosciences: Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling (0412, 0793, 1615, 4805, 4912)
  • Biogeosciences: Modeling
  • Biogeosciences: Computational methods and data processing

Abstract

EOS, TRANSACTIONS AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, VOL. 86, NO. 44, PAGE 431, 2005
doi:10.1029/2005EO440003

FEATURE

Archiving numerical models of biogeochemical dynamics

Peter E. Thornton

Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.

Robert B. Cook

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Bobby H. Braswell

Complex Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham

Beverly E. Law

College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis

Wilfred M. Corvallis

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Herman H. Shugart

Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville

B. Timothy Rhyne

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Leslie A. Hook

Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.

No adequate community-wide mechanism or set of standards currently exists to ensure the long-term reproducibility of results from numerical modeling in biogeochemical research. Various investigators maintain copies of code and supporting materials through ad hoc methods, and some models and modeling studies are not archived by any mechanism other than the published manuscripts describing specific research results. This state of affairs invites trouble.

To illustrate this situation, one of the authors of this article was recently involved in producing a state-of-the-art review on the topic of the effects of climate change on forests. The literature on this topic contains a rich array of results from dynamic models of global or regional vegetation produced by forcing these models with climate change scenarios.

Citation: Thornton, P. E., R. B. Cook, B. H. Braswell, B. E. Law, W. M. Corvallis, H. H. Shugart, B. T. Rhyne, and L. A. Hook (2005), Archiving numerical models of biogeochemical dynamics, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(44), 431, doi:10.1029/2005EO440003.

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