Model: T&C

Tethys- Chloris (T&C) is a mechanistic model designed to simulate essential components of the hydrological and carbon cycles, resolving exchanges of energy, water, and CO2 between the land surface and the planetary boundary layer with an hourly time step. Mass and energy fluxes control the temporal dynamics of vegetation (carbon pools) that in turn affect land-atmosphere exchange through its biophysical structure and physiological properties. Plant life-cycle processes, including photosynthesis, phenology, carbon allocation and tissues turnover are explicitly modeled. For instance, Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a prognostic variable, which varies in response to environmental conditions and vegetation leaf phenology. Changes in LAI can affect water and carbon fluxes that in turn can modify vegetation growth in a fully interactive framework.

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