Infrastructure

Some examples of the most relevant research infrastructure that is available to our researchers are listed and described below.

• Dynamic global vegetation modelling using LPJ-GUESS (Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator)
• Earth system modelling using EC-Earth: A European community Earth System Model
• DataGURU: An integrative tool for the acquisition, re-gridding and conversion of environmental and climate data.
• ICOS Sweden: Integrated Carbon Observation System
• ACTRIS Sweden: Aerosol, Clouds, Trace gases Research Infrastructure
• NAISS: National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden 

LPJ-GUESS (Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator)

LPJ-GUESS is a process-based dynamic vegetation-terrestrial ecosystem model designed for regional or global studies. Models of this kind are commonly known as dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs). Given data on regional climate conditions and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, it can predict structural, compositional and functional properties of the native ecosystems of major climate zones of the Earth.

Researchers and users of LPJ-GUESS can explore a wide range of ecosystem properties, such as vegetation cover (by plant functional types or major species), biomass and soil organic matter carbon pools, leaf area index (LAI), net primary production (NPP), and carbon fluxes, including emissions from wildfires and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). The model also simulates hydrological and nutrient processes like evapotranspiration, runoff, and nitrogen cycling.

The latest version (4.1) introduces expanded capabilities, including methane emissions, soil nitrogen chemistry, permafrost dynamics, and an updated wildfire model, making it even more versatile for studying climate-ecosystem interactions.

LPJ-GUESS was initially developed by Ben Smith at Lund University in collaboration with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. Over time, researchers from institutions worldwide have contributed to its ongoing development and refinement.

LPJ-GUESS is openly available for research and applications in ecology, climate science, and environmental modeling. Users from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to explore its capabilities and contribute to its continuous improvement.

Learn more and get started with LPJ-GUESS:

LPJ-GUESS | Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science

EC-Earth: A European community Earth System Model

Global climate models and Earth system models are numerical models of the Earth's climate system and are used to understand how the Earth's various components, including the atmosphere, oceans, land surface, biosphere, and cryosphere, interact with each other and how they respond to natural and human-induced changes. These models simulate the physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the Earth system, at different levels of complexity. As such, they are essential tools for understanding and predicting climate variability and climate change.

EC-Earth is an Earth system model developed by a European consortium of national meteorological services and research institutes. The EC-Earth consortium was started in 2006 and has welcomed many new partners ever since. By now, EC-Earth has become a prominent state-of-the-art model within the international landscape of global climate and Earth system models. The EC-Earth consortium has contributed to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), and will continue to do so in the future. EC-Earth is also used as a research tool in various national, European and international projects.

EC-Earth – EC-Earth a Global Climate Model

DataGURU: An integrative tool for the acquisition, re-gridding and conversion of environmental and climate data.

DataGURU is a tool for researchers to disseminate and find data on climate, land use, biodiversity and related areas.

The tool can also be of value as open data strategy in future applications for research funding. You can share your data with DataGURU – and make sure that your research makes even further use and gets more citations. Regardless of where you put your data, it is easy to tell DataGURU where it is and make it available to DataGURU users. 

This work has been commissioned by the strategic research areas BECC and MERGE.

dataguru.lu.se

ICOS Sweden: Integrated Carbon Observation System

ICOS Sweden is the Swedish part of a European research infrastructure, ICOS RI, which aims to provide accessible high-quality data to enhance our understanding of sinks and emissions of greenhouse gases.

The project contributes to the long-term strengthening and consolidation of Swedish greenhouse gas-related research. ICOS Sweden currently includes a network of seven field stations and one station aboard a commercial vessel in the Baltic Sea, conducting continuous measurements. The station mix consists of six ecosystem stations, three atmospheric stations, and two ocean stations, spanning from Abisko in the north to Skåne in the south.

ICOS Sweden is organizationally located at CEC, together with MERGE and more. 

icos-sweden.se

ACTRIS Sweden: Aerosol, Clouds, Trace gases Research Infrastructure

ACTRIS Sweden is a Swedish national research infrastructure with funding from the Swedish Research Council. It is the Swedish national part of the distributed pan-European environmental research infrastructure ACTRIS and strongly linked to ICOS Sweden through co-location of observational sites.

actris.sweden.se

NAISS: National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden 

NAISS s a provider of leading edge national supercomputing resources. NSC provide a wide range of high performance computing and data services to members of academic institutions throughout Sweden.

NAISS | The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden