Implementing and Evaluating Variable Soil Thickness in the Community Land Model, Version 4.5 (CLM4.5)

This work was supported by DOE (DE-SC0006773), NASA (NNX13AK82A), and NSF (AGS-0944101). L. R. Leung was supported by the DOE Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research Earth System Modeling program. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated for DOE by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. We thank the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for providing the GRACE data, which were processed by Sean Swenson under support from the NASA MEaSUREs Program. High-performance computing support was provided by NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, through computing time on Yellowstone (http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7wd3xhc) and on The University of Arizona Research Computing

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