QUEST Theme 1 - QUERCC (Quantifying ecosystem roles in the carbon cycle) Project

Introduction

QUERCC addresses land surface processes over timescales from days to centuries, with particular emphasis on the carbon cycle. Some processes are already well represented and validated in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs), while others that are known to impact on the carbon cycle are not. Independent carbon and vegetation data sets are being compared against DVGMs to assess their current state, and further key modules will be developed for nutrient cycling, which exerts a major feedback on carbon exchange, and for a greater resolution of plant processes. A global map of plant functional types that exert significant impacts on the carbon cycle will also be developed.

Availability of data and file format

Data are stored in the BADC QUEST QUERCC project data archive.

The data filenames should follow the BADC File Name convention and the data file format should be NetCDF or NASA-Ames.

Access to data and information

Please refer to the QUEST Conditions of Access page for details of access restrictions.

Links

QUERCC website - http://nerc-quercc.group.shef.ac.uk/

Citation

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Who to contact

The Principal Investigator in this project is Prof Ian Woodward from University of Sheffield, with 11 co-investigators at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), the Forestry Commission's Forest Research, the Agriculture and the Environment Division at Rothamsted Research and the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Leeds, York, Oxford and Southampton.

Each QUEST project will have a designated "data co-ordinator" to ensure good communication with the QUEST core team/BADC regarding data issues, and to ensure that each project meets its data provision obligations. The data co-ordinator for the QUERCC project is Jayne Young.

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