Variable influence of photosynthetic thermal acclimation on future carbon uptake in Australian wooded ecosystems under climate change

Climate change will impact gross primary productivity (GPP), net primary productivity (NPP), and carbon storage in wooded ecosystems. The extent of change will be influenced by thermal acclimation of photosynthesis – the ability of plants to adjust net photosynthetic rates in response to growth temperatures – yet regional differences in acclimation effects among wooded ecosystems are currently unknown.  We examined the effects of changing climate on 17 Australian wooded ecosystems with and without the effects of thermal acclimation of C3 photosynthesis. Ecosystems were drawn from five ecoregions (tropical savanna, tropical forest, Mediterranean woodlands, temperate woodlands, and temperate forests) that span Australia’s climatic range. We used the CABLE-POP land surface model adapted with thermal acclimation functions and forced with HadGEM2-ES climate projections from RCP8.5. For each site and ecoregion, we examined a) effects of climate change on GPP, NPP, and live tree carbon storage..., These data include output and setting files for simulations produced using the CABLE-POP land surface model as described in the linked article.  For each of the 17 OzFlux study sites files provided are:

CABLE-POP output for simulations with and without thermal acclimation of photosynthesis enabled for three periods.  Varying and static CO2 simulation output is provided for the 2006-2099 period.

1850-1900 (plume_out_cable_1850_1900.nc)
1901-2005 (plume_out_cable_1901_2005.nc)
2006-2099 (plume_out_cable_2006_2099.nc)

CABLE-POP setting files with and without thermal acclimation of photosynthesis enabled for three periods:

1850-1900 (cable_1850_1900.nml)
1901-2005 (cable_1901_2005.nml)
2006-2099 (cable_2006_2099.nml)

Vegetation parameter files:

pftlookup_sitename.csv
veg_params_sitename.txt

Also included are two run scripts and a site list:

run_cable-pop.sh: CABLE-pop runscript
site_wrapper_future.sh: script containing run loop used to cycle through the 17 sites to run run_cable..., Data files are in .csv, .txt, .nml, .sh, zip, and .nc format.  They can be opened with the following software:

.csv - MS Excel or any text editor
.txt - any text editor
.nml - any text editor, atom
.nc - panoply
.sh - bash
.zip - win zip or 7zip
, # Variable influence of photosynthetic thermal acclimation on future carbon uptake in Australian wooded ecosystems under climate change

This dataset contains the files related to the experiment detailed in the manuscript published in Global Change Biology whereby we used the CABLE-POP landsurface model forced with HadGEM2-ES climate forcing data to examine the influence of photosynthetic thermal acclimation on GPP, NPP and live tree carbon storage in 17 wooded ecosystems in Australia.

Included in this dataset are the parameter files (file extension .txt and .csv), setting files (file extension .nml) and runscripts (file extension .sh) needed to reproduce the experiment. In addition we provide the simulation output needed to examine our results. Full details of the methods used to produce these data are found within the manuscript methods section.

## Description of the Data and file structure

#### Site level files:

For each of the 17 study sites, there are 8 CABLE-POP simulation out...