MEDFATE Model

2022-02-24

Water Balance Forest Granier Sperry
MEDFATE Model
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SOURCE DOCUMENTATION DOI
Miquel
Miquel de Cáceres

Ecosystem Modelling Facility - CREAF - CSIC

Antoine
Antoine Cabon

University of Utah

Víctor
Víctor Granda-García

Ecosystem Modelling Facility - CREAF

Description

Simulation of water balance of soils and plants within forest stands. Medfate also allows simulating plant growth, mortality and recruitment processes of a set of cohorts competing for light and water within a forest stand. Finally, it also allows relating the amount of plant biomass and the water status of plant tissues to fuel characteristics and, hence, fire hazard.

WHAT WE DO
  • Research in process based modelling of terrestrial ecosystems
  • Provide training and technical support for modelling activities to research groups at CREAF.
  • Develop and promote the use of process-based and empirical models aimed at predicting the response of terrestrial ecosystems to global change at multiple scales from the forest stand to the region.
  • Facilitate discovery of data sets or models relevant for ecosystem modelling activities.
  • Develop tools aimed at facilitating the interoperability between data sources and models, and between different models.
  • Develop and maintain interactive web applications for ecosystem data exploration and visualization.
CONTACT

Campus de Bellaterra (UAB) Edifici C

08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès

EcosystemModellingFacility@creaf.uab.cat

@ecosystemmodelf.bsky.social

This action is part of the Severo Ochoa "ULandscape" funded in 2019 by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation to support Research Centres of Excellence.

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