Modelling spatio-temporal near-surface temperature variation in high mountain landscapes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 483-501

  Pape, Roland ^a   Löffler, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy balance model; High mountain ecosystems; Norway; Temperature variation

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; MODELING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 3242716965     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.02.019     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. Arnold J.G., Srinivasan R., Muttiah R.S., Williams J.R. Large area hydrologic modeling and assessment part I: model development. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 34:1998;73-89
2. Aune, B. 1993. National atlas of Norway: climate. Norwegian Mapping Authority, Hønefoss.
3. Barry, R.G. 1992. Mountain weather and climate. Routledge, London, 402 pp.
4. Billings W.D. Arctic and alpine vegetations: similarities, differences, and susceptibility to disturbance. Bio Sci. 23:1973;697-704
5. Bliss, L.C., Heal, O.W., Moore J.J. (Eds.), 1981. Tundra Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis. IBP 25, Cambridge, 813 pp.
6. Boulet G., Chehbouni A., Braud I., Vauclin M., Haverkamp R., Zammit C. A simple water and energy balance model designed for regionalisation and remote sensing data utilization. Agric. For. Meteorol. 105:2000;117-132
7. Bronstert A., Plate E.J. Modelling of runoff generation and soil moisture dynamics for hill slopes and micro-catchments. J. Hydrol. 198:1997;177-195
8. Bronstert, A., Menzel, L., Middelkoop, H., de Roo, A.P., van Beek, E. (Eds.), 2001. River basin research and management: integrated modelling and investigation of land-use impacts on the hydrological cycle. Phys. Chem. Earth 26, 487-640.
9. Bruse, M., 1997. Untersuchung der Wechselwirkungen zwischen kleinräumiger Umweltgestaltung und dem Mikroklima: Entwicklung eines mikroskaligen prognostischen Modells zur Simulation von Austauschprozessen in der unteren städtischen Grenzschicht. http://klima.geographie.ruhr-uni- bochum.de/bruse/report1-97.ps
10. Bruse, M., 1999. Die Auswirkungen kleinskaliger Umweltgestaltung auf das Mikroklima. Entwicklung des prognostischen numerischen Modells ENVI-met zur Simulation der Wind-, Temperatur- und Feuchteverteilung in städtischen Strukturen. Dissertation. Bochum. http://klima.geographie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ bruse/diss.pdf
11. Cayrol P., Kergot L., Moulin S., Dedieu G., Chehbouni A. Calibrating a coupled SVAT vegetation groth model with remotely sensed and surface temperature. A case study for the HAPEX-Sahel grassland site. J. Appl. Meteorol. 39:2000;2452-2472
12. Dahl, E. 1998. The phytogeography of northern Europe (British Isles, Fennoscandia and adjacent areas). University Press, Cambridge, 297 pp.
13. Denby B., Greuell W., Oerlemans J. Simulating the Greenland atmospheric boundary layer. Part I. Model description and validation. Tellus. 54A:2002;512-528
14. De Vries, D.A., 1975. Heat transfer in soils. In: De Vries D.A., N.H. Afgan (Eds.), Heat and Mass Transfer in the Biosphere. Part I. Transfer Processes in Plant Environment. Scripta Book Co., Washington DC, pp. 5-28.
15. Diekkrüger B., Bormann H., Renschler C. Spatial variability and scale dependent runoff generation. Freiburger Schriften zur Hydrologie. 13:2001;17-27
16. Dierssen K., Windhorst W. Ökosystemforschung am Ökologie- Zentrum Kiel. Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen. 144:2000;30-37
17. DNMI, 2003. Temperaturnormaler Vågå/Oppland og Tafjord/Møre og Romsdal. Det Norske Meterologiske Institutt (DNMI). http://www.dnmi.no
18. Duttmann, R., 1999. Partikuläre Stoffverlagerungen in Landschaften. Ansätze zur flächenhaften Vorhersage von Transportpfaden und Stoffumlagerungen auf verschiedenen Maßstabsebenen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung räumlich-zeitlicher Änderungen der Bodenfeuchte. Geosynthesis 10. Hannover.
19. Fægri, K., 1972. Geo-ökologische Probleme der Gebirge Skandinaviens. In: Troll, C. (Ed.), Geoecology of the high-mountain regions of Eurasia: Proceedings of the symposium of the International Geographical Union, commission on high-altitude geoecology, 20-22 November 1969 at Mainz in connection with the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz, Kommission für Erdwissenschaftliche Forschung. Erdwissenschaftliche Forschung 4. Wiesbaden, pp. 98-106.
20. Fleagle, R.G., J.A. Businger, 1963. Atmospheric physics. International Geophysics Series 5. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, London, 346 pp.
21. Fleming M.D., Chapin F.S. III, Cramer W., Hufford G.L., Serreze M.C. Geographic patterns and dynamics of Alaskan climate interpolated from a sparse station record. Global Change Biol. 6:2000;49-58
22. Flügel W.-A. Hydrological response units (HRUs) as modelling entities for hydrological river basin simulation and their methodological potential for modelling complex environmental systems. Results from the Sieg catchment. Die Erde. 127:1996;43-62
23. Fohrer N., Haverkamp S., Eckhardt K., Frede H.-G. Hydrologic response to land use changes on the catchment scale. Phys. Chem. Earth B. 26:2001;577-582
24. Franks S.W., Beven K.J., Quinn P.F., Wright I.R. On the sensitivity of the soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer (SVAT) schemes: equifinality and the problem of robust calibration. Agric. For. Meteorol. 86:1997;63-75
25. Fremstad, E. 1997. Vegetationstyper i Norge. Norsk institutt for naturforskning. Temahefte 12. Trondheim, 279 pp.
26. Fu, P., P.M. Rich, 1999. Design and implementation of the Solar Analyst: an ArcView extension for modeling solar radiation at landscape scales. In: Proceedings of the 19th Annual ESRI User Conference, San Diego, USA, http://www.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap867/p867.htm
27. Geiger, R., 1961. Das Klima der bodennahen Luftschicht. Viehweg, Braunschweig, 646 pp.
28. Gilmanov, T.G., 1993. Empirical and theoretical foundations for modelling the response of ecosystems to climatic change. In: Holten, J.I., Paulsen, G., Oechel, W.C. (Eds.), Impacts of climatic change on natural ecosystems, with emphasis on boreal and arctic/alpine areas. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, pp. 42-74.
29. Gjærevoll, O. 1990. Alpine plants. In: Berg, R.Y., Fægri, K., Gjærevoll, O. (Eds.), Maps of Distribution of Norwegian Vascular Plants, vol. II. Tapir, Trondheim, 123 pp.
30. Gottfried M., Pauli H., Reiter K., Grabherr G. A fine-scaled predictive model for changes in species distribution patterns of high mountain plants induced by climate warming. Diversity Distribut. 5:1999;241-251
31. Gupta H.J., Sorooshian S., Yapo P.O. Towards improved calibration of hydrologic models: multiple and non commensurable measures of information. Water Resour. Res. 34(4):1998;751-763
32. Hanks, R.J., G.L. Ashcroft, 1980. Applied soil physics. Soil water and temperature applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 159 pp.
33. Harding R.J., Gryning S.-E., Halldin S., Lloyd C.R. Progress in understanding of land surface/atmosphere exchanges at high latitudes. Theor. Appl. Climatol. 70:2001;5-18
34. Hutchinson M.F. Interpolating mean rainfall using thin plate smoothing splines. Int. J. Geographic. Inform. Syst. 9:1995;385-403
35. Isard S.A., Belding M.J. Evapotranspiration from the alpine tundra of Colorado, USA. Arct. Alp. Res. 21:1989;71-82
36. Jansson, P.-E., L. Karlberg, 2001. Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer Model for Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Systems. Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stockholm, 321 pp., ftp://www.lwr.kth.se/ CoupModel/CoupModel.pdf.
37. Kersten, M.S., 1949. Thermal Properties of Soils. Institute of Technology, Eng. Exp. Station, Bull. No. 28, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 26 pp.
38. Köhler B., Löffler J., Wundram D. Problems of local geoecovariance in the central Norwegian mountains. Norsk Geogr Tidsskr. 48:1994;99-111
39. Körner, C., 1995. Alpine plant diversity. A global survey and functional interpretations. In: Chapin III, F.S., C. Körner (Eds.), Arctic and alpine biodiversity: Patterns, causes and ecosystem consequences. Ecological Studies 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 45-62.
40. Körner, C., 1999. Alpine plant life. Functional plant ecology of high mountain ecosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 338 pp.
41. Kondratyev, K.Y., 1969. Radiation in the atmosphere. International Geophysics Series 12. Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, London, 912 pp.
42. Krysanova V., Wechsung F., Becker A., Poschenrieder W., Gräfe J. Mesoscale ecohydrological modelling to analyse regional effects of climate change. Environ. Model Assess. 4:1999;259-271
43. Land, C., M. Ponater, R. Sausen, E. Roeckner, 1999. The ECHAM4.L39(DLR) atmosphere GCM - Technical description and model climatology. DLR Forschungsbericht 1999-31. Köln, 45 pp.
44. Leser, H., 1997. Landschaftsökologie. Ulmer, Stuttgart, 644 pp.
45. Löffler, J., 1998. Geoökologische Untersuchungen zur Struktur mittelnorwegischer Hochgebirgsökosysteme. Oldenburger Geoökologische Studien 1. Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem, Universität Oldenburg, 207 pp.
46. Löffler J. Altitudinal changes of ecosystem dynamics in the central Norwegian high mountains. Die Erde. 133:2002;155-186
47. Löffler J. Micro-climatic determination of the vegetation along topographical, altitudinal, and oceanic-continental gradients in the central Norwegian high mountains. Erdkunde. 57:2003;232-249
48. Löffler, J., D. Wundram, 2003. Geoökologische Untersuchungen zur Prozessdynamik mittelnorwegischer Hochgebirgsökosysteme. Oldenburger Geoökologische Studien. Part 2. Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem, Universität Oldenburg, 158 pp.
49. Löffler J., Finch O.-D., Naujok J., Pape R. Möglichkeiten der Integration zoologischer Aspekte in die landschaftsökologische Untersuchung von Hochgebirgen. Methodendiskussion am Beispiel ökologischer Prozesssysteme und Biozönosen. Naturschutz u Landschaftsplanung. 33:2001;351-357
50. Mitchell, G., R.H. Griggs, V. Benson, J. Williams, 1997. Documentation of the EPIC-model, http://www.brc.tamus.edu/epic/documentation/index.html
51. Moen, A. 1999. National Atlas of Norway: Vegetation. Norwegian Mapping Authority, Hønefoss, 200 pp.
52. Molenaar J.G.d. An ecohydrological approach to floral and vegetational patterns in arctic landscape ecology. Arct. Alp. Res. 19:1987;414-424
53. Mosimann, T., 1984. Landschaftsökologische Komplexanalyse. Steiner, Wiesbaden, 115 pp.
54. Mosimann T. Untersuchungen zur Funktion subarktischer und alpiner Geoökosysteme (Finnmark [Norwegen] und Schweizer Alpen). Physiogeographica. 7:1985;1-488. Basel
55. Noppel H., Fiedler F. Mesoscale heat transport over complex terrain by slope winds - A conceptual model and numerical simulations. Bound Layer Meteorol. 104:2002;73-97
56. Oke, T.R., 2001. Boundary Layer Climates, second ed. Routledge, London, New York, 435 pp.
57. Ottesen P.S. Niche segregation of terrestrial alpine beetles (Coleoptera) in relation to environmental gradients and phenology. J. Biogeogr. 23:1996;353-369
58. Peixoto, J.P., A.H. Oort, 1992. Physics of Climate. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 520 pp.
59. Price, M.F., R.G. Barry, 1997. Climate change. In: Messerli, B., Ives, J.D. (Eds.), Mountains of the World. A Global Priority. Panthenon, New York, London, pp. 409-445.
60. Rummukainen M., Räisänen J., Bringfelt B., Ullerstig A., Omstedt A., Willen U., Hansson U., Jones C. A regional climate model for northern Europe: model description and results from the downscaling of two GCM control simulations. Clim. Dyn. 17:2001;339-359
61. Schelde, K., 1996. Modelling the forest energy and water balance. ISVA series paper 62. Lyngby, 263 pp.
62. Steinhardt, U., 2002. Landscape ecological complex analysis. In: Bastian, O., Steinhardt U. (Eds.), Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 160-168.
63. Steinhardt U., Volk M. The investigation of water and matter balance on the meso-landscape scale: a hierarchical approach for landscape research. Landscape Ecol. 17:2002;1-12
64. Tanner C.B. Measurement of evapotranspiration. Agronomy. 11:1967;534-574
65. Walker, D.A., W.D. Billings, J.G.d. Molenaar, 2001. Snow-vegetation interactions in tundra environments. In: Jones, H.G., Pomeroy, J.W., Walker, D.A., Hoham, R.W. (Eds.), Snow Ecology. An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems. University Press, Cambridge, pp. 266-324.
66. Wendland, F., R. Kunkel, 1998. Classification of the groundwater-bearing lithologic units in the Elbe catchment area (german section) with respect to their natural nitrate degradation capacity. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Diffuse Pollution. Edinburgh, pp. 163-170.
67. Wenkel, K.O., 1999. Dynamische Landschaftsmodelle für die Angewandte Landschaftsökologie. In: Schneider-Sliwa, R., Schaub, D., Gerold, G. (Eds.), Angewandte Landschaftsökologie - Grundlagen und Methoden. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 107-133.
68. Wielgolaski, F.E. (Ed.) 1998. Polar and alpine tundra. Ecosystems of the World, vol. 3. Elsevier, Amsterdam, 920 pp.
69. Withers, M.A., V. Meentemeyer, 1999. Concepts of scale in landscape ecology. In: Klopatek, J.M., Gardner, R.H. (Eds.), Landscape ecological analysis. Issues and Applications. Springer, New York, pp. 205-252.
70. Whiteway J.A., Carswell A.I., Ward W.E. Mesospheric temperature inversions with overlying nearly adiabatic lapse rate: an indication of a well-mixed turbulent layer. Geophys. Res. Lett. 22:1995;1201-1204