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The prediction of future environmental changes, in particular the rapid ones, requires the development of coupled global vegetation-climate models (cf. Noblet 1996). Important components of this modelling effort are, for example, the so-called ‘soil-vegetation atmosphere transfer schemes’ (SVAT) models for the sensitivity of the climate to the vegetation, the ‘biome’ models for the description of the vegetation structure in relation to (equilibrium) climate, or the global ‘net primary productivity’ (NPP) models for the biogeochemical fluxes (energy, H2O, CO2) between terrestrial vegetation and the atmosphere. The goal of the NPP models is to help understand the photosynthetically active component in the global carbon balance. This is necessary for the assessment of the biospheric responses to climate change, and their feedbacks to climate.
This work is a partial summary of the efforts of the modelling teams that contributed to the Potsdam NPP Model Intercomparison (for names, see acknowledgements section).
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Fischer, A. (1997). Seasonal features of global net primary productivity models for the terrestrial biosphere. In: Huntley, B., Cramer, W., Morgan, A.V., Prentice, H.C., Allen, J.R.M. (eds) Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes. NATO ASI Series, vol 47. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60599-4_36
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