edu.ucar.opensky::articles:19521 UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact 2025-12-26T02:36:32.966920 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7g73gj0 Representing nighttime and minimum conductance in CLM4.5: global hydrology and carbon sensitivity analysis using observational constraints 2017-01-23T00:00:00Z publication https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7g73gj0 https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-321-2017 Lombardozzi, Danica author Zeppel, M. J. B. author Fisher, Rosemary A. author Tawfik, Ahmed author UCAR/NCAR - Library publisher The terrestrial biosphere regulates climate through carbon, water, and energy exchanges with the atmosphere. Land-surface models estimate plant transpiration, which is actively regulated by stomatal pores, and provide projections essential for understanding Earth's carbon and water resources. Empirical evidence from 204 species suggests that significant amounts of water are lost through leaves at night, though land-surface models typically reduce stomatal conductance to nearly zero at night. Here, we test the sensitivity of carbon and water budgets in a global land-surface model, the Community Land Model (CLM) version 4.5, to three different methods of incorporating observed nighttime stomatal conductance values. We find that our modifications increase transpiration by up to 5% globally, reduce modeled available soil moisture by up to 50% in semi-arid regions, and increase the importance of the land surface in modulating energy fluxes. Carbon gain declines by up to similar to 4% globally and > 25% in semi-arid regions. We advocate for realistic constraints of minimum stomatal conductance in future climate simulations, and widespread field observations to improve parameterizations. UCAR/NCAR - Library OpenSky Support PO Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307-3000 opensky@ucar.edu http://opensky.ucar.edu/ homepage pointOfContact PDF Text theme Resource Type 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z publication Copyright Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. None eng geoscientificInformation