#L13 Overviews of the NGEE-Tropics Project and FATES, a Demographic Vegetation Model for the ACME ESM

#L13 Overviews of the NGEE-Tropics Project and FATES, a Demographic Vegetation Model for the ACME ESM

Poster Title

Overviews of the NGEE-Tropics Project and FATES, a Demographic Vegetation Model for the ACME ESM

Authors

@Charles Koven (Unlicensed), Jeff Chambers, Lara Kueppers, @Ryan Knox (Unlicensed), Rosie Fisher, @Gautam Bisht, Benjamin Andre, @chonggang xu (Unlicensed), Brad Christoffersen, @Jennifer Holm, @William Riley (Unlicensed), David Lawrence, Deb Agarwal, Stuart Davies, Michael Keller, @Ruby Leung, Nate McDowell, Rich Norby, Alistair Rogers

Group

Land

Experiment

Poster Category

Future Direction

Submission Type

Poster

Poster Link

Tropics Session-Land Interests-WJ Riley.pptx

 

Abstract

In this poster, I will describe an overview of 2 things: (1) The NGEE-Tropics project, including its overview, goals, modeling and measurement activities; and (2) an overview of the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator (FATES), which is a demographic vegetation model for the ACME ESM.  FATES is both a core focus of model development activities in NGEE-Tropics, as well as an integrating tool in the design and scientific organization of the NGEE-Tropics project, and I will highlight some basic theoretical underpinnings and some initial applications of the model.