This paper is partly supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences International Partnership Creative Group "The Climate System Model Development and Application Studies", the 973 project under Grant No. 2005CB321703; the Fund for Innovative Research Groups with Grant No. 40221503;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 40225013;the NSFC project with Grant No. 40233031; The participation of Paul J. Hanson in this work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (D0E), 0ffice of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER), as a part of the Program for Ecosystem Research (PER). The data from the Walker Branch AmeriFlux tower site (Kell Wilson and Dennis Baldocchi) was developed with funding from the D0E, 0ffice of Science (BER) as a part of its Terrestrial Carbon Processes (TCP) program and from NASA/GEWEX.
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