Simulating the drought response of European tree species with  the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5)

Meyer, Benjamin F.; Darela-Filho, João P.; Gregor, Konstantin; Buras, Allan; Gu, Qiao-Lin; Krause, Andreas; Liu, Daijun; Papastefanou, Phillip; Asuk, Sijeh; Grams, Thorsten E. E.; Zang, Christian S.; Rammig, Anja

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4643-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4643-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-4643-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 14

Model description paper

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30 Jul 2025

Model description paper |

| 30 Jul 2025

Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, 97c552c5)

Benjamin F. Meyer, João P. Darela-Filho, Konstantin Gregor, Allan Buras, Qiao-Lin Gu, Andreas Krause, Daijun Liu, Phillip Papastefanou, Sijeh Asuk, Thorsten E. E. Grams, Christian S. Zang, and Anja Rammig

Data sets

Data analysis pipeline for "Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS" B. F. Meyer https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14001089

Model code and software

LPJ-GUESS Release v4.1.1 model code J. Nord et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.8065736

LPJ-GUESS model code used in "Simulating the drought response of European tree species with the dynamic vegetation model LPJ-GUESS" B. F. Meyer et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14000805

Short summary

Climate change has increased the likelihood of drought events across Europe, potentially threatening the European forest carbon sink. Dynamic vegetation models with mechanistic plant hydraulic architecture are needed to model these developments. We evaluate the plant hydraulic architecture version of LPJ-GUESS and show its ability to capture species-specific evapotranspiration responses to drought and to reproduce flux observations of both gross primary production and evapotranspiration.