Welcome to LPX!

LPX is the latest DGVM in the LPJ suite of models. It is a development of LPJ-SPITFIRE (Thonicke et

al, 2010), with some improvement in the fire component, documented in Prentice et al (2011). LPX

has been used to simulate global hydrological cycles, both current (Murray et al., 2012a) & future

(Murray et al., 2012b); carbon stores at the last ice age (Ciais et al, 2012); and in the development

of a DGVM benchmarking system (Kelley et al., 2012).

To find out how to run the model, please read the “How_to_run_the_model” file.

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Ciais, P., Tagliabue, A., Cuntz, M., Bopp, L., Scholze, M., Hoffmann, G., Lourantou, A., Harrison, S.

P., Prentice, I. C., Kelley, D. I., Koven, C., Piao, S. L., Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial

biosphere during the Last Glacial Maximum, Nature Geosciences, 2012

Kelley, D. I., I. Colin Prentice, S. P. Harrison, H. Wang, M. Simard, J. B. Fisher, and K. O. Willis. "A

comprehensive benchmarking system for evaluating global vegetation models." Biogeosciences

Discussions, 2012

Murray, S.J., I.M. Watson, and I.C. Prentice The use of dynamic global vegetation models for

simulating hydrology and the potential integration of satellite observations, Progress in

Physical Geography , 2012a

Murray, S.J., P.N. Foster, I.C. Prentice, Future global water resources

with respect to climate change and water withdrawals as estimated by a

dynamic global vegetation model, Journal of Hydrology, 2012b

Prentice, I. C., Kelley, D. I., Foster, P. N., Friedlingstein, P., Harrison, S. P., & Bartlein, P. J.,

Modeling fire and the terrestrial carbon balance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2011

Thonicke, K., A. Spessa, I. C. Prentice, S. P. Harrison, L. Dong, and C. Carmona-Moreno. "The

influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions:

results from a process-based model." Biogeosciences, 2010