NACP MsTMIP Summary of Model Structure and Characteristics

This data set provides a summary of the model structure and characteristics of participating models in the North American Carbon Program (NACP) Multi-scale synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP), a formal model intercomparison and evaluation effort focused on improving the diagnosis and attribution of carbon exchange at regional and global scales. Model structure refers to the types of processes considered (e.g. nutrient cycling, disturbance, lateral transport of carbon), and the specific ways these processes are represented (e.g. photosynthetic formulation, temperature sensitivity, respiration) in the models.

These data are the result of a comprehensive survey of investigators responsible for each MsTMIP participating model. For a given characteristic (i.e., process/attribute), a model was assigned a binary value (0 or 1) indicating whether it included a particular characteristic; a value of one (1) was given if it considered or included that process, or a zero (0) if it did not.

MsTMIP builds upon current and past synthesis activities, and has a unique framework designed to isolate, interpret, and inform understanding of how model structural differences impact estimates of carbon uptake and release.

There is one data file with this data set in .csv format.

本数据集概述了北美碳计划（NACP）多尺度综合与陆地模型互操作性项目（MsTMIP）中参与模型的模型结构及特性。模型结构涉及考虑的进程类型（例如，养分循环、干扰、碳的横向传输），以及这些进程在模型中的具体表示方式（例如，光合作用公式、温度敏感性、呼吸作用）。这些数据是针对每个MsTMIP参与模型负责调查者的全面调查结果。对于某一特定特性（即进程/属性），模型被分配一个二元值（0或1），以指示是否包含该特定特性；若模型考虑或包含该进程，则赋予值1，若未包含，则赋予值0。MsTMIP建立在当前和过去的综合活动之上，并具有独特的框架，旨在隔离、解释并增进对模型结构差异如何影响碳吸收和释放估计的理解。本数据集包含一个以.csv格式存储的数据文件。