Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks
Processes and state variables in the soil-vegetation system and the atmosphere are tightly coupled. Feedbacks between these compartments have great impact on regional climate and climate variability and especially vegetation and its development plays a crucial role. The new Land Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) will encompass the entire soil-vegetation-atmosphere system using a combination of novel scanning lidar systems, high-resolution vegetation remote sensing, and soil-vegetation sensors including eddy-covariance systems. The aim is to advance the representation of soil-vegetation-atmosphere processes in weather and climate models. To support (and enable) adaptation measures to increasing climate variability, the time horizon of drought forecasting including the related uncertainties will be extended to the seasonal scale.
| Researcher | Function | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Bárdossy, András | Professor of Hydrology and Geohydrology | University of Stuttgart |
| Cirpka, Olaf A. | Professor of Hydrogeology | Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen |
| Nowak, Wolfgang | Professor of Stochastic Simulation and Safety Research for Hydrosystems | University of Stuttgart |
| Resch, Michael | Professor of High Performance Computing, Director High Performance Computing Center | University of Stuttgart |
| Streck, Thilo | Professor of Biogeophysics | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |
| Wulfmeyer, Volker | Professor of Physics and Meteorology | University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart |