Climate Change

A Framework for Benchmarking Land Models

Land models, which have been developed by the modeling community in the past few decades to predict future states of ecosystems and climate, have to be critically evaluated for their performance skills of simulating ecosystem responses and feedback …

Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of CO2 in Relation to Climate: A Cross-Biome Analysis across Multiple Time Scales

The net ecosystem exchange of CO2 (NEE) varies at time scales from seconds to years and longer via the response of its components, gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) and ecosystem respiration (RE), to physical and biological drivers. Quantifying the …

Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Computed Green-up Dates Based on Daily AVHRR NDVI Observations

The main objective of the current paper is to evaluate and explain differences between computed green-up dates of vegetated land surface derived from satellite observations and budburst dates from ground observational networks. Landscapes dominated …

Satflux

Project to derive long-term, near-global ground heat flux estimates from satellite remote sensing data. These estimates will improve our understanding of the recent changes in subsurface conditions and will allow to estimate global changes in ground heat storage during the last 10 to 20 years