GEOG0133 Terrestrial Carbon: modelling and monitoring

Course Convenor

Prof. P. Lewis

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Timetable

Term 2, Academic year 2020-21

Week commencing	Course Week	Topic	Presentations	Notes
11 Jan	1	001 Course intro	ppt	notes
		002 Carbon and Climate	ppt	notes
18 Jan	2	003 Terrestrial Carbon Cycle	ppt	notes
		004 Photosynthesis	ppt	notes
25 Jan	3	005 Solar Radiation Practical	bdr	notes
1 Feb	4	006 Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling	ppt	notes
		007 DGVMs	ppt	notes
		008 PEMs	ppt	notes
8 Feb	5	009 Phenology	ppt	notes
		010 Photosythesis Modelling	ppt	notes
15 Feb	6	Reading Week
22 Feb	7	011 Photosythesis Practical	bdr	notes
1 Mar	8	012 Measurement (student-led seminar)		notes
8 Mar	9	013 Data Assimilation	ppt	notes

Contents

• 1. Introduction to the Course
  • 1.1. Aims of the course
  • 1.2. Content of the course
  • 1.3. Assessment
  • 1.4. Format of the course
  • 1.5. Learning outcomes
• 2. Carbon and Climate
  • 2.1. Purpose of this section
  • 2.2. Terrestrial Climate and Climate Change
  • 2.3. Energy transfer
  • 2.4. Carbon in the Earth System
  • 2.5. Summary
  • 2.6. Reading for this lecture
• 3. The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. The Carbon Cycle
  • 3.3. Biogeochemical processes
  • 3.4. Summary
  • 3.5. Reading for this lecture
• 4. Photosynthesis
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Photosynthesis
  • 4.3. Respiration
  • 4.4. Limitations to photosynthesis at the leaf level
  • 4.5. Summary
  • 4.6. Reading for this lecture
• 5. Practical: Solar Radiation
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Incident PAR
  • 5.3. Weather generation
  • 5.4. Discussion
• 6. Terrestrial Ecosystem Modelling
  • 6.1. Purpose of this section
  • 6.2. Land Surface schemes
  • 6.3. Some land surface schemes
  • 6.4. Summary
  • 6.5. References
• 7. Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
  • 7.1. Purpose of this section
  • 7.2. Global vegetation modelling
  • 7.3. Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
  • 7.4. Summary
  • 7.5. References
• 8. Production Efficiency Models
  • 8.1. Purpose of this section
  • 8.2. Overview of the ‘Monteith’ approach
  • 8.3. Summary
  • 8.4. References
• 9. Phenology
  • 9.1. Purpose of this lecture
  • 9.2. Crop Phenology
  • 9.3. Phenology
  • 9.4. Mechanisms of phenology and evidence of changes
  • 9.5. Models of phenology
  • 9.6. Summary
  • 9.7. References
• 10. Modelling Photosynthesis
  • 10.1. Purpose of this lecture
  • 10.2. Overview of the ‘Farquhar’ approach
  • 10.3. Stomatal conductance
  • 10.4. Water limitations on stomatal conductance
  • 10.5. Scaling to canopy stomatal conductance
  • 10.6. Summary
  • 10.7. References
• 11. Practical: Photosynthesis
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Photosynthesis model
  • 11.3. The code
  • 11.4. leaf-scale photosynthesis
  • 11.5. Canopy scale assimilation
  • 11.6. Daily Carbon assimilation
  • 11.7. Summary
• 12. Seminar: Measurement (Student-led Seminar)
  • 12.1. Introduction
  • 12.2. Disturbance
  • 12.3. Measurement and inference of Stocks
  • 12.4. Measurement and inference of rates
  • 12.5. Conclusions
• 13. Data Assimilation Theory
  • 13.1. Introduction to concepts
  • 13.2. Finding solutions
  • 13.3. Discussion
  • 13.4. Reading
• 14. Data Assimilation Application
  • 14.1. Applications
  • 14.2. Discussion
  • 14.3. Reading
• 15. Practical Answers: Solar Radiation
  • 15.1. Exercise
  • 15.2. Exercise
  • 15.3. Exercise
• 16. Practical Answers: Photosynthesis
  • 16.1. Exercise
  • 16.2. Exercise

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