Wind INduced Disturbances in Forests At Local and RegionaL Scales
Abstract
Disturbances attract a lot of attention as important driver of forest ecosystem development and the related provisioning of ecosystem services. Wind is among the most relevant disturbance factors in temperate forests. Moreover, wind disturbances are closely interrelated with other disturbance fac-tors such as bark beetles which results in complex disturbance regimes. While for predictive ecosys-tem modelling temperature and precipitation related climate drivers are well developed, the quality of wind speed data is low. Overall objective is to develop a methodology to “translate” RCM simulations into wind gust speed proxies that can then be used to drive forest models for climate change impact analysis and adaptation planning. We will use high-resolution weather models to reconstruct wind field structures that resulted in observed forest damage. Comparative analysis with related regional climate models (RCMs) will allow to derive proxies for wind gust speed at the spatial resolution of RCMs. The new wind gust speed estimates will be evaluated twofold: (1) With correlative modelling it will be evaluated how well the improved climate data sets can explain observed local storm damage in forests. (2) At regional scale we will use the improved climate data sets to simulate forest damages from wind and related bark beetle disturbances with a dynamic forets ecosystem model and compare the simulated damage with observed data. Overall, WINDFALLS will contribute to a substantial improvement in the ability to explain and project disturbance regimes.
keywords weather extremes forestry modelling
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Project staff
Manfred Josef Lexer
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Manfred Josef Lexer
mj.lexer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91316
Project Leader
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Jessica Kult-Herdin
Jessica Kult-Herdin MSc.
jessica.kult@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Mortimer Müller
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.rer.nat. Mortimer Müller
mortimer.mueller@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91318
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Mona Nazari
Mona Nazari MSc.
mona.nazari@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91317
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Christian Schmidt
Christian Schmidt MSc.
christian.schmidt@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Mariana Silva Andrade
Mariana Silva Andrade MSc.
mariana.andrade@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91318
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021
Zoran Trailovic
Dipl.-Ing. Zoran Trailovic
zoran.trailovic@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91331
Project Staff
01.06.2018 - 30.06.2021