Terrestrial Biogeochemical Modelling

Methods, Theory and Application
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-35535-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 279 mm

Reihe: Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment

This textbook provides the detailed steps of a system modeling approach for terrestrial biogeochemical cycling. The steps include model conceptualization, formulation, programming, verification, parameterization, validation, uncertainty analysis, sensitivity analysis, system state analysis, and model applications with examples. Readers can follow those steps to create their own models and go through model analyses before applying their models to address science questions. The book also provides the way to use such models to address socioeconomic problems related to terrestrial ecosystem goods and services. In addition, this text provides a state-of-the-art understanding of processes and mechanisms that govern the water and elemental cycles of terrestrial ecosystems. These to-be-modeled processes and mechanisms will be the reference source for terrestrial biogeochemical modeling researchers.

The content of this textbook is designed for a semester-long senior undergraduate and graduate level course. The book aims to balance three goals. First, it provides methodological details and steps to develop and apply a state-of-the-art terrestrial ecosystem biogeochemistry model. Second, it provides the details of quantitative terrestrial ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycling to be represented in the model. Third, it provides a general modeling framework with the most-updated biogeochemical processes and mechanisms to allow readers to build on to have a more adequate model for their research.

Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhuang, Qianlai

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Global Terrestrial Ecosystems.- Chapter 2: Methods of Terrestrial Biogeochemical Modeling.- Chapter 3: Terrestrial Biogeochemical Model Conceptualization.- Chapter 4: Mathematical Formulation of Terrestrial Biogeochemical Models.- Chapter 5: Numerical Solutions, Programming, and Verification.- Chapter 6: Terrestrial Biogeochemical Model Parameterization.- Chapter 7: Model Sensitivity Analysis.- Chapter 8: Model Uncertainty Analysis.- Chapter 9: Model Validation.- Chapter 10: System Dynamics Analysis.- Chapter 11: Integrated TBM and Further Development.- Chapter 12: Model Applications.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Qianlai Zhuang is a Professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Agronomy at Purdue University. His research focuses on the interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, and human dimension in the context of climate change, chemical element cycles, and policy-making. One of his major research activities is on carbon exchanges between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere by investigating how changes of climate, soil physics (e.g., permafrost dynamics and soil hydrology), atmospheric chemicals (e.g., CO2 and O3), land-use and land-cover (e.g., fire disturbances), affect carbon assimilation and decomposition with both process-based biogeochemical and atmospheric inversion modeling approaches. His second major research activity is on modeling CH4 exchanges between the atmosphere and biosphere. His third major research activity is on analyzing consequences of air pollutants for ecosystem goods and services and the economy. In the Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Dynamics Laboratory at Purdue, his research group uses earth system models combining laboratory and field observations and remotely-sensed data to study dynamics of structure and functioning of global natural and managed terrestrial ecosystems, dynamics of major greenhouse gases cycling including CO2, CH4, and N2O, and feedbacks of ecosystems and biogeochemical dynamics to the climate and society.