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Soil-plant-atmosphere interactions at the regional scale
Project
Project code: DFG: STR 481/9-1 & FOR 1695
Contract period: 01.02.2012
- 31.05.2018
Purpose of research: Applied research
Coupled atmosphere-land surface models are important tools for assessing the impact of global climate change on a regional scale. These models are critically dependent on an accurate representation of land surface exchange processes. This project aims at improving our understanding of soil-plant-atmosphere interactions and their mathematical description in land surface models. We will study the effect of integrating a mechanistic crop model with a coupled atmosphere-land surface model on land surface exchange processes, test the capability of the resulting model system and answer the question in which detail phenology and crop development have to be modelled to produce reliable projections of regional climatic conditions and their impact on agriculture, landscape water regime and landscape structure. Model development and testing will be based on the data of long-term eddy covariance and soil water measurements.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Meteorology
- Soil science
- Climate Change
