Cluster C - C02

C02

Modulation of soil water fluxes by changes in vegetation properties and management

Prof. Dr. Frank Ewert
University of Bonn  |    +49 228 73-2041  |    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Thomas Gaiser
University of Bonn  |    +49 228 73-2050  |    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Prof. Dr. Guillaume Lobet
Forschungszentrum Jülich  |    +49 2461 61-9013  |    This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Summary

We will investigate the impact of changes in agricultural and forest management during the last decades on land surface – atmosphere interactions. We will improve the parameterization of land surface model CLM so that it can reproduce the effects of changes in management on regional heat, water and carbon fluxes. Therefore, we will link a suite of models starting from mechanistic single plant models that couple carbon and water flow within the plant with the external environment over specific crop models at the field scale to the Community Earth System Model CLM.