Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3165-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3165-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
Model description paper
 | 
06 Jun 2023
Model description paper |  | 06 Jun 2023

MEDFATE 2.9.3: a trait-enabled model to simulate Mediterranean forest function and dynamics at regional scales

Miquel De Cáceres, Roberto Molowny-Horas, Antoine Cabon, Jordi Martínez-Vilalta, Maurizio Mencuccini, Raúl García-Valdés, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Santiago Sabaté, Nicolas Martin-StPaul, Xavier Morin, Francesco D'Adamo, Enric Batllori, and Aitor Améztegui

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3165-2023-supplement

Data sets

Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensemble (https://www.euro-cordex.net/index.php.en) S. Kotlarski, K. Keuler, O. B. Christensen, A. Colette, M. Déqué, A. Gobiet, K. Goergen, D. Jacob, D. Lüthi, E. van Meijgaard, G. Nikulin, C. Schär, C. Teichmann, R. Vautard, K. Warrach-Sagi, and V. Wulfmeyer https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-1297-2014

Cuarto inventario forestal nacional, Cataluña, Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente Ministerio de Agricultura y Pesca and Alimentación y Medio Ambiente https://www.miteco.gob.es/es/biodiversidad/temas/inventarios-nacionales/inventario-forestal-nacional/

Model code and software

emf-creaf/medfate: MEDFATE v.2.9.3 De Cáceres M., Granda V., Cabon A., and Ameztegui A https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7695331

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Short summary
Regional-level applications of dynamic vegetation models are challenging because they need to accommodate the variation in plant functional diversity. This can be done by estimating parameters from available plant trait databases while adopting alternative solutions for missing data. Here we present the design, parameterization and evaluation of MEDFATE (version 2.9.3), a novel model of forest dynamics for its application over a region in the western Mediterranean Basin.
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