Energy, water, and CO 2 fluxes at the soil-atmosphere interface are of key interest among ecosystem researchers. The Simultaneous Heat and Water (SHAW) Model describes radiation energy balance, heat transfer, and water movement within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum but has no plant growth or carbon assimilation modules. This study coupled the components of solar radiation and water transfer within a plant canopy in SHAW with a leaf-level biochemical photosynthesis model. The SHAW model provides leaf water potential to the photosynthesis model to calculate intercellular CO 2 (C) through stomatal control in each layer within the canopy, and solar radiation, air temperature and humidity to calculate photosynthetic rate (Pa) within each canopy layer. Stomatal conductance (g) was calculated by a revised Ball-Berry model, which describes the relationship between g and P and was a feedback from the photosynthesis model to SHAW to calculate energy and water transfer and in turn the leaf water potential. The photosynthesis model was run iteratively with the SHAW leaf energy balance within each canopy layer to reach convergence in leaf temperature. After including the relationship between stomatal conductance and photosynthetic rate, computed stomatal conductance in the extended SHAW (SHAW-Pn) model was able to respond to the variation of CO2 concentration. Validation of the photosynthesis model showed adequate simulations of responses of photosynthesis, transpiration, stomatal conductance, and C, at leaf level to changes in light and CO 2. The SHAW-Pn performed excellently in simulating net radiation, sensible and latent heat, and CO 2 fluxes over a winter wheat field in the North China Plain (36°57'N, 11636'E, 28 m above sea level). The root mean square error (RMSE) of the simulation for net radiation, latent, and sensible heat fluxes was 36.1, 31.0, and 25.8 W m 2, respectively. The RMSE of CO 2 flux simulation was 0.18 mg rn s'. SHAW-Pn describes the biophysico-chemical processes and water and carbon cycles in the ecosystem, which can be a framework of vegetation response to atmospheric CO 2 changes but needs incorporation of a detailed plant growth module.