Articles • medfate

Package overview and model inputs

Package overview: An introduction to the package and its main functions
Understanding model inputs: Describes the information and data format required for model simulation
Preparing model inputs: Learn how to prepare vegetation, soil and weather inputs for simulations

Articles to learn how to conduct simulations

Basic water balance: Learn how to conduct soil plant water balance model simulations
Advanced water and energy balance: Learn how to conduct soil plant water balance model simulations using a more detailed approach for energy balance, plant hydraulics, stomatal regulation and photosynthesis
Forest growth: Learn how to conduct simulations including carbon balance, plant growth and mortality
Forest dynamics: Learn how to conduct simulations of forest function and dynamics, possibly including forest management actions

Articles explaining advanced modelling tasks

Sensitivity analysis and calibration: Learn how to conduct a global sensitivity analysis or a parameter calibration exercise
Meta-modelling exercise: Description of a meta-modelling exercise used to estimate non-mensurable parameters
Calibration of growth and senescence parameters: Description of a calibration procedure used for growth and senescence parameters

Model benchmark evaluation at stand and regional levels

Model evaluation in experimental plots: Benchmark evaluation at stand-level, using soil moisture, sapflow, leaf water potential and eddy covariance data from instrumentalized forest plots
Evaluation of regional-level forest dynamics with forest inventory data: Benchmark evaluation at regional level, using forest inventory data from Catalonia

Examples of model application

Soil and plant water balances at Font-Blanche: Soil and plant water balance at the forest plot of Font-Blanche (France)
Water pools and species interactions: Preliminary results comparing simulations with different assumptions of root overlap between species