Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Airborne trace gas measurements and mesoscale modelling
Inverse data-driven estimation
Integrating surface-atmosphere Exchange Processes Across Scales - Modeling and Monitoring
Tall Tower Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation
Satellite-based remote sensing of greenhouse gases
Model name | About the model | Land cover | Satellite input? | Hydrological cycle? | Element cycles? | Timestep |
+++ SDPRM+++
Simplified diagnostic photosynthesis and respiration model » user: Bakr Badawy | Simplified, linearized model for use in inversion and optimization | fixed | AVHRR GIMMS NDVI | no | Carbon | Daily (respiration) and 3-hourly (GPP) |
+++ BETHY +++
Biosphere Energy Transfer Hydrology model | 13 plant functional types, 58 tunable parameters | fixed | fAPAR (optional - can be run prognostically without) | yes | Carbon | Daily |
+++ BiomeBGC +++ | Biome-level model derived from | fixed | none | Yes (bucket model) | Carbon & Nitrogen | Daily |
+++ JSBACH +++
Jena Scheme for Biosphere-Atmosphere Coupling in Hamburg » user: Sönke Zaehle | Based on BETHY, and soil scheme from ECHAM5 | Dynamic, including disturbance from land-use change | none | Yes | Carbon | hourly, land cover updated yearly |
+++ LPJ +++
Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model | Evolved from BIOME model family | Dynamic, including fire disturbance and response, prognostic | none | Yes | Carbon | Daily, with vegetation structure and plant functional type updated yearly |
+++ O-CN +++
» user: Sönke Zaehle | Evolved from ORCHIDEE, land surface scheme of LMDz | Dynamic, including disturbance from land-use change, prognostic | none | Yes | Carbon & Nitrogen | Hourly, land cover updated yearly |
+++ VPRM +++
Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model » user: Christoph Gerbig, Julia Marshall, Thomas Koch | Combines climate data for temperature and radiation with sat. data and optimizes by using flux towers | Fixed | EVI and LSWI from MODIS | no | Diagnostic carbon | Hourly |