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Department Biogeochemical Signals

at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Quantifying the effects of interacting nutrient cycles on terrestrial biosphere dynamics and their climate feedbacks (QUINCY)

lifetime: Sept. 2015 - Aug. 2020

Releases of the QUINCY terrestrial ecosystem model

The new terrestrial ecosystem model QUINCY has been designed from scratch to allow for a seamless integration of the fully coupled carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles with each other and also with processes affecting the energy and water balances in terrestrial ecosystems (Thum et al. 2019).

The QUINCY model source-code is available from the QUINCY model releases git repository.
The access to this git repository is restricted to registered users. More details about getting access can be found at the Software page.

doi	10.17871/quincy-model-2019
Model name	QUINCY model
Publisher	Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC), Jena, Germany
Creators	Sönke Zaehle^a, Caldararu Silvia^a, Engel Jan^a, Kern Melanie^a, Schnur Reiner^b, Thum Tea^a, Yu Lin^a ^a MPI-BGC Jena, ^b MPI-Met Hamburg
Initial publication year	2019
Resource type	Model source code
Licence	GNU GPL v3 and MPI-M software license (details at the Software page)
Repository	https://git.bgc-jena.mpg.de/quincy/quincy-model-releases
Contact	Sönke Zaehle: szaehle(at)bgc-jena.mpg.de

Release information

Each release of the QUINCY model is stored in an individual branch.

QUINCY land model - release01

branch name: quincy-land/release01
brief info: Initial release of the QUINCY land model.
publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4781-2019
Bug reports, info, and comments to: Sönke Zaehle (email: szaehle@bgc-jena.mpg.de)

QUINCY land model - release02

branch name: quincy-land/release02
brief info: Adds the capacity to calculate variable leaf N content using whole-plant optimality theory, implemented as an alternative to the empirical formulation in quincy-land/release01.
publication: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16327
Bug reports, info, and comments to: Sönke Zaehle (email: szaehle@bgc-jena.mpg.de)

Jena Soil Model (JSM) - release01

branch name: jsm/release01
brief info: JSM, implemented using the QUINCY model framework, is a microbial-explicit, vertically resolved soil organic matter model integrated with N and P processes, which represents the microbial explicit decomposition and stabilisation with approaches for microbial adaptation and plant-microbe competition.
publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-783-2020
Bug reports, info, and comments to: Sönke Zaehle (email: szaehle@bgc-jena.mpg.de)

This project receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 647204)