Land Model and Biogeochemistry Working Group Meeting 2026

Agenda Track
Agenda File
Land Model and Biogeochemistry Agenda

Tuesday, February 24th

Mesa Lab - Main Seminar Room

Welcome

Will Wieder

CESM cross working group session (NCAR extremes group) CESM workshop, Boulder, June 15-17, 2026 Session abstract Storytelling to craft climate science tools for communities

Laura Landrum

Land carbon response to zero and negative emissions across Earth system models

Abby Swann

 

Tracking Shifts and Uncertainty in Global Climate Space

Adrianna Foster

 

Addressing Snowmelt Biases over Glacier National Park in a Variable-Resolution Configuration of CESM

Kyle Nardi

 

Unpacking the potential: How proposed reforestation scenarios shape global and regional temperature (remote)

Nora Fahrenbach

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

A Multivariate, Multiscale Calibration Framework for Managed Croplands (remote)

Ruparati Chakraborti

 

Development of Individual Crop Responses to Increased Ozone Exposure

Will Selvidge

 

Crop Model Performance and Projections in the Newly-Updated Community Land Model (CLM) Version 6

Sam Rabin

 

CLM overview

Will Wieder

 

Discussion

 

Lunch (on your own)

 

Land surface processes contributing to skillful prediction of the summer 2003 European drought and heat wave 13 months in advance

Jerry Meehl

 

Diagnosing Biases in Soil Moisture–Evaporation Coupling Metrics in Earth System Models using Covariance Discriminant Analysis

Nazanin Tavakoli

 

Evaluating Drivers of Evapotranspiration Using a Coupled Perturbed Parameter Ensemble

Ben Buchovecky

 

Functional diversity in land surface modeling: where and when does it matter for the terrestrial carbon cycle?

Evan Margiotta

 

Regional carbon cycle responses to El Nino in CMIP6

Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

 

Discussion

 

Break

Beyond Stomatal Conductance: Mechanistic Mesophyll Modeling to Resolve Global GPP, Carbon Isotope, and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) Dynamics

Ying Sun

 

How stomatal function shapes evapotranspiration in a rising CO2 world

Amy Liu

 

Evaluating C4 Photosynthesis Representation at NEON Grassland Sites Using the Community Land Model

Rachel Hallmark

 

Multi-site calibrations of CLM6 for water and carbon fluxes – emergence of parameter coherence (remote)

Thomas Kavoo

 

Evaluation of different calibration methods using land surface models across 124 flux towers: machine-learning-based emulator vs. traditional methods (remote)

Ignacio Aguirre

 

Discussion

 

Adjourn

 

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Land Model and Biogeochemistry Agenda

Wednesday, February 25th

Mesa Lab - Main Seminar Room

Welcome

Will Wieder

 

Learning Urban Climate Dynamics via Physics-Guided Urban Surface-Atmosphere Interactions (remote)

Jiyang Xia

 

Local Urban Climate-Aware HVAC Control via Reinforcement Learning (remote)

Junjie Yu

 

Advancing CLMU for regional urban climate simulations through WRF coupling: intercomparison with NOAH–SLUCM (remote)

Yuan Sun

 

Assessing the leverage of regeneration on forest demography with the FATES Tree Recruitment Scheme

Rachel Ward

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

Representing prescribed fire and mechanical thinning in a demographic vegetation model: mechanisms driving forest structure, fuel, and demographic rates in Sierra mixed-conifer forests

Xiulin Gao

 

Global Historical Scenarios with ELM-FATES

Charlie Koven

 

FATES overview and discussion

Adrianna Foster

 

Additional Discussion

 

Lunch (on your own with optional discussion on Workplace Culture and Well-being led by Sam Levis in the Damon room)

 

Update on Fully Coupling mizuRoute with CESM3

Naoki Mizukami

 

Update on hillslope hydrology

Sean Swenson

 

Science opportunities and software engineering needs of the CLM-ml multilayer canopy

Gordon Bonan

 

Comparing Multiple Stomatal Conductance Models in Multilayer Canopy Simulations

Zhiyi Zhou

 

Neurosymbolic Translation Pipeline of CLM-ml to JAX (remote)

Aya Lahlou

Discussion

 

Break

Advancing Integrated Hydrological-Crop-Irrigation Systems Modeling using CLM5

Aman Shrestha

 

Assessing the Implication of Mineral Adsorption and Microbial Function Composition on Soil Carbon Emissions Across the CONUS: An integrated AI/ML and the Community Land Model (LMM5.0) parameterization (remote)

Yang Song

Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) to improve biological reality of machine-learning-based models of the soil CO2 flux in subalpine forests

Yujie Liu

 

Shrinking snowpacks and microbial phenology: Exposing knowledge gaps under the snow

Will Wieder

 

Exploring carbon cycle dynamics in an observationally constrained CLM6 PPE

Linnia Hawkins

 

Discussion

 

Adjourn

 

Agenda Track
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Land Model and Biogeochemistry Agenda

Thursday, February 26th

Mesa Lab - Main Seminar Room

Welcome

Kristen Krumhardt

 

Updates ocean biogeochemistry in CESM3

Kristen Krumhardt

 

Source or Sink? Solar Radiation Management and Future Ocean Carbon Uptake

Holly Olivarez

 

Comparative ability of soil biogeochemical sub-models in predicting land carbon responses to a climate change experiment

Katie Rocci

 

Modeling Volcanic Ash Impacts of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull Eruption (remote)

Lily Wu

 

Global Model Estimates of Atmospheric Al, Ca, Fe, Si, and Ti from Dust and Non-Dust Aerosols Informed by EMIT Surface Mineralogy and Evaluated Against Observations (remote)

Natalie Mahowald

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

CGD SEMINAR: CLM-FATES a new terrestrial vegetation scheme for the Norwegian Earth System Model, v3

Rosie Fisher

 

Lunch (on your own)

 

CUPID Tutorial, Part 1

Mike Levy & Will Wieder

 

Break

 

CUPID Tutorial, Part 2

Mike Levy & Will Wieder

 

Discussion

 

Adjourn