Project

Improving carbon cycle ecosystem models using a new cost function concept to assimilate multiple data streams

Code
01D23411
Duration
01 October 2011 → 01 January 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Plant biology
Keywords
advanced ecosystem models data assimilation carbon cycle
 
Project description

The project objective is to develop a data assimilation method to use multiple data streams in ecosystem models. This approach will allow identifying systematic errors in the global ecosystem model ORCHIDEE. Improved model equations will be tested in the stand scale model EMERGent. Valid improvements will be implemented in the global model ORCHIDEE and used for future projections.