Abstract
This paper describes the Carbon-Land Model Intercomparison Project
(C-LAMP) being carried out through a collaboration between the
Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Biogeochemistry Working Group,
a DOE SciDAC-2 project, and the DOE Program for Climate Model Diagnosis
and Intercomparison (PCMDI). The goal of the project is to intercompare
terrestrial biogeochemistry models running within the CCSM framework to
determine the best set of processes to include in future versions of CCSM.
As a part of the project, observational datasets are being collected
and used to score the scientific performance of these models following
a well-defined set of metrics. In addition, metadata standards for
terrestrial biosphere models are being developed to support archival and
distribution of the C-LAMP model output via the Earth System Grid (ESG).
Progress toward completion of this project and preliminary results from
the first set of experiments are reported.
