TY - JOUR AU - Zhou, Jian AU - Xia, Jianyang AU - Wei, Ning AU - Liu, Yufu AU - Bian, Chenyu AU - Bai, Yuqi AU - Luo, Yiqi PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/29 TI - A traceability analysis system for model evaluation on land carbon dynamics: design and applications JO - Ecological Processes SP - 12 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - An increasing number of ecological processes have been incorporated into Earth system models. However, model evaluations usually lag behind the fast development of models, leading to a pervasive simulation uncertainty in key ecological processes, especially the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle. Traceability analysis provides a theoretical basis for tracking and quantifying the structural uncertainty of simulated C storage in models. Thus, a new tool of model evaluation based on the traceability analysis is urgently needed to efficiently diagnose the sources of inter-model variations on the terrestrial C cycle in Earth system models. SN - 2192-1709 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-021-00281-w DO - 10.1186/s13717-021-00281-w ID - Zhou2021 ER -