PalEON: Terrestrial Ecosystem Model Drivers for the Northeastern U.S., 0850-2010

This dataset from the PalEON Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (PEMIP) provides harmonized regional environmental and meteorological drivers at a resolution of 0.5 degrees for the North-central and Northeastern U.S. over the time period 0850-01-01 to 2010-12-31. This dataset consists of the regional environmental and meteorological drivers. The environmental drivers include (1) dominant biome type, (2) plant functional type, (3) annual carbon dioxide concentration, (4) monthly carbon dioxide concentration, (5) land use-land cover change, (6) nitrogen concentrations, and (7) soil measurements. The meteorological drivers include (1) incident longwave radiation, (2) incident shortwave radiation, (3) precipitation, (4) surface pressure, (5) specific humidity, (6) air temperature, and (7) wind speed. The PEMIP is a coordinated effort to develop a set of terrestrial ecosystem model simulations with the ability to evaluate high-resolution ecophysiological causes and consequences of forest responses to climatic variability and change over the past millennium.