1. Yiqi Luo Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology University of Oklahoma, USA http://ecolab.ou.edu EcoPAD

2. EcoPAD Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data into model To facilitate data-model integration and ecological forecasting

3. Data assimilation toward forecasting

4. Functionality

5. Workflow

6. User Memu

7. Inputs Weather (1895-2003) Soil property Ecopad ECOPAD TECO DA algorithm Outputs GPP ER NPP Rh NEE Soil water content Scenarios: Elevated CO 2 Warming Altered precipitation Regional carbon modeling of 476 great plains counties under global change scenarios Data source Read in county by county Write out county by county Application