Ryan Knox

MIT-CEE

The land-surface model dynamically evolves vegetation through growth, mortality, disturbance; as it is influenced by bio-geochemistry, hydrology and meteorology. As I am looking to make long term forecasts, the coupled model simulations require bounding projections of the state of the atmosphere. Further, I would like to evolve the model feedbacks under boundaries that reflect realistic projection scenarios. Such scenarios are reflected in the AR4 climate model projections, like (SRES, commit, etc.).