An Inetegrated Understanding of the Terrestrial Water and Energy Cycles Across the NEESPI Domain Through Observations and Modelling
- Status: Funded by NASA
- Duration: April 2006 to February 2010
- PI: Eric Wood, Princeton University
- Co-PI: Laura Bowling, Purdue University
Objectives:
Project specific VIC model developments
Beta source code for project-specific VIC model enhancements and lake model parameter files can be downloaded here.
View complete evaluation results for the soil thermal model.
The overarching science question to be addressed by this proposal is: How have changes in climate, landcover and water management in northern Eurasia over the last half-century affected the land surface hydrology and flood frequency, and what are the impacts at regional to continental scales? Specific objectives of the study are to:
- Test, both for local areas with high quality historical and satellite data, and over the entire NEESPI domain, the performance of an extended version of VIC that incorporates new forest and permafrost algorithms;
- Resolve the extent of land cover change within the NEESPI domain and evaluate the influence on water and energy fluxes; and
- Perform VIC modeling retrospective experiments over the period (1950-2000).