MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe Events - MODEXTREME To reach this goal, the project will achieve the following objectives:
1) Scientific objectives:
- Identify and integrate into simulation models, the responses of main crop and grassland systems to environmental
conditions associated with extreme climatic events;
- Improve yield monitoring and forecasting systems via multiple observational constraints to be assimilated into processbased
models across different climate conditions;
- Estimate possible trajectories of agricultural productivity in the short (during current season) to medium time horizons and
associated uncertainties. This involves taking into account the genetic progress and its effects on responses to extreme
environmental conditions.
2) Technological objectives:
- Build a consistent, multi-domain data repository for use in studying climate variability and extreme events relevant for
agricultural production;
- Develop generically reusable software units that implement libraries of models. This will allow (i) extending the vegetation
response, as implemented in existing modelling solutions, to weather extremes, (ii) extending the multi-model platform for
plant growth and development simulations of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (MARS: Monitoring
Agricultural ResourceS);
- Prototype alternate versions of the workflows for agricultural production monitoring and scenario analysis both us