Forum "Assessing Requirements for a Carbon Model Reference Validation Framework"

Date: 10 & 11 January 2012 at ISSI, Bern, Switzerland

Purpose: There is significant uncertainty in our projection of future climate due to the poor quantification of feedbacks between the global climate and the carbon cycle. This is large due to limited process understanding of vegetation-atmosphere interaction, i.e. the uptake of carbon through photosynthesis and the emission through respiration. In a future climate these two key processes will change, but how and at what rate is uncertain. Progress in this area can only be made by improved process understanding and importantly by constantly improving and validating our models at the appropriate level of scale. This FORUM aims to contribute to that progress by taking stock of our current understanding and monitoring capability and importantly how these can be merged into sophisticated carbon assimilation models. Participation in this Forum is by invitation only.

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