Joint UK Land Environment Simulator

JULES Science Meeting, University of Edinburgh, January 2009

Thursday 8 January 2009
		Speaker
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch and Registration
12:50 – 15:30	Data Assimilation
	CCDAS	Marko Scholze
	Assimilating EO data into JULES	Tris Quaife
	Model data fusion with the Orchidee model	Philippe Ciais
	Estimation of Carbon Cycle Parameters in JULES	David Pearson
	The adjoint of JULES	Tim Jupp
	The REFLEX experiment	Mat Williams
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee
16:00 – 17:30	Snow
	Effect of the new snow module on snow, runoff and soil temperatures	Cecile Menard
	Evaluation of regional simulations of snow cover over the Austrian Alps	Simon Dadson
	High resolution process modelling of a high latitude catchment	Andy Wiltshire
17:30 – 18:30	Posters and drinks

Friday 9 January 2009
		Speaker
09:00 – 10:10	Vegetation
	Why vegetation modelling depends on luck	Rosie Fisher
	Implementation of land cover changes…	John Hughes
	Does Amazon die-back mean it is not worth reducing deforestation?	Richard Betts
10:10 – 10:40	Coffee
10:40 – 12:10	Crop modelling
	Process-based Crop Growth within the Land Surface Model JULES and Implications for Land-Atmosphere Exchange Processes	Catherine Van den Hoof
	Modelling the phenology and carbon budget of major crops at the field scale, supported by remote sensing data	Oliver Sus
	Coupling a dynamic crop model to JULES	Josh Hooker
	Coupled crop-climate variability	Tom Osborne
12:10 – 13:00	Lunch
13:00 – 14:00	Management committee meeting
14:00 – 15:00	Steering committee meeting