IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial impacts of a changing climate
Huntingford, C.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-7770; Booth, B.B.B.; Sitch, S.; Gedney, N.; Lowe, J.A.; Liddicoat, S.K.; Mercado, L.M.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4069-0838; Best, M.J.; Weedon, G.P.; Fisher, R.A.; Lomas, M.R.; Good, P.; Zelazowski, P.; Everitt, A.C.; Spessa, A.C.; Jones, C.D..
2010
IMOGEN: an intermediate complexity model to evaluate terrestrial impacts of a changing climate.
GeoScientific Model Development, 3.
679-687.
10.5194/gmd-3-679-2010
Abstract/Summary
We present a computationally efficient modelling system, IMOGEN, designed to undertake global and regional assessment of climate change impacts on the physical and biogeochemical behaviour of the land surface. A pattern-scaling approach to climate change drives a gridded land surface and vegetation model MOSES/TRIFFID. The structure allows extrapolation of General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations to different future pathways of greenhouse gases, including rapid first-order assessments of how the land surface and associated biogeochemical cycles might change. Evaluation of how new terrestrial process understanding influences such predictions can also be made with relative ease.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
|---|---|
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.5194/gmd-3-679-2010 |
| Programmes: | CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Biogeochemistry > BGC Topic 1 - Monitoring and Interpretation of Biogeochemical and Climate Changes |
| UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: | Harding (to July 2011) |
| ISSN: | 1991-959X |
| Additional Information: | GeoScientific Model Development is an open access journal - to access full text, please click on the OFFICIAL URL link |
| NORA Subject Terms: | Ecology and Environment Earth Sciences Atmospheric Sciences |
| Date made live: | 15 Dec 2010 11:42 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/12725 |
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