DataModel Fusion Meeting Goals

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Data/Model Fusion Meeting Goals

• Promote interactions of ecosystem experimental
  scientists with ecosystem modelers (Key TERACC,
  Goal)

What is in those Black Box Ecosystem Models
anyway? Rich Norby, 2004 Many of the
assumptions in Ecosystem and Atmospheric/Biosphere
Models are not Consistent with the observed
experimental data Ch. Korner, 2004, 2003
etc.
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Data/Model Fusion Meeting Goals

• Give Experimental ecologists a better
  understanding about Ecosystem Models and promote
  the interactive use of Ecosystem models by
  experimental ecologists.

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Components of Ecosystem Models

• Plant Production Models
• Process models
• Large scale models
• Biogeochemistry Models
• Process models
• Large scale models
• Plant Competition Models
• FORET models
• Functional group models (DVGMs)

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Data/Model Fusion Meeting Goals

• New statistical techniques for parameterizing
  ecosystem models
• Data-Model Assimilation in Community Ecology (Jim
  Clark)
• Inverse Analysis of Ecological observations at
  Regional Scales (Damian Barrett)

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Data/Model Fusion Meeting Goals

• Ecosystem Modeling Book
• Outline ecosystem modeling book has been
  circulated to the group
• Encourage your input to the book

• There arent any good ecosystem modeling books
  Yiqi Lu, 2004

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Data/Model Fusion Meeting Goals

• Other synthesis products
• Outline model/data comparisons
• Promote model comparisons
• Standard data bases for comparing models
• EOS Actual (Cross Group Product)
• Global Change Experiment vs. Ecosystem Model