QUINCY - Quantifying the effects of interacting nutrient cycles#
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Description#
QUINCY is a state-of-the-art terrestrial biosphere model with fully coupled carbon, nitrogen, water, phosphorus and energy cycles. The objective of QUINCY is to clarify the role of the interacting terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus cycles and their effects on terrestrial C allocation and residence times as well as terrestrial water fluxes.
QUINCY will create a novel, predictive framework founded on the principle of resource optimisation, shifting the paradigm of terrestrial biosphere modelling towards an active biological control of matter flows. QUINCY’s main themes are
the effects of nutrient availability on plant photosynthesis and respiration by explicitly taking the energy requirement of nutrient acquisition into account, and
the effects of vegetation-soil interactions, namely rhizosphere processes, on plant nutrient availability and soil C turnover.
It is following the structure and modularization of ICON-Land, where it is fully integrated as an alternative to the land surface scheme JSBACH4.
Model(s)#
QUINCY : GNU GPL v3 license - restricted access, developed at MPG-BGC
Programming language(s)#
FORTRAN