Sentences with phrase «surface ecosystem model»
The scientists modified a land surface ecosystem model called ORCHIDEE to account for how carbon behaves at different layers, such as at the surface versus 30 centimeters below ground.
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Obtaining accurate sea surface temperatures is important for a range of applications — from weather prediction to climate modeling to understanding marine ecosystem fluctuations.
The study, called «Modeling the effects of adopting agroforestry on basin scale surface runoff and sediment yield in the Philippines,» uses a computer - based Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to simulate the effects of different land uses on watershed hydrology and the ecosystem services provided by the Gabayan watershed.
development of a regional scale earth system model that includes coupling WRF with other earth system components such as ocean, sea ice, land surface hydrology, ecosystem, and chemistry; and
Wang, S., R.F. Grant, D.L. Verseghy, and T.A. Black, 2002: Modelling carbon dynamics of boreal forest ecosystems using the Canadian land surface scheme.
We've got a great representation of these things within ecosystem models that we tend to use uncoupled and we just run those on the land surface.
«A deeper look at the differences between the different land surface and Earth system models may help better constrain the response of mid-latitude ecosystems to climate variability.»
These characteristics included morphometric, geographic, and historical properties of study reservoirs (i.e., depth, residence time, volume, surface area, age, and latitude), biologically significant water column solute concentrations (i.e., NO3 — , total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon), and metrics of ecosystem primary productivity (i.e., trophic status and mean or modeled surface water chlorophyll a concentrations; see the supplemental materials for a complete list of the tested variables).