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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