Nety Nurda

Paper Presentation, Feb 2019

 INTRODUCTION

1. Build two different climate datasets (with and

without the topography) and then compare them
with the station observations
2. The NPP estimation to the BEPS model.
3. Analyze the characteristics of the NPP (different
climatic inputs)
4. Design experiments to find the primary
contributing variables for NPP
Materials and methods
• Study area
• Climate data
• Model description
• Data acquisition and processing
Land cover
LAI
Soil Data
Daily meteorological data
Forest biomass data
• Simulation experiments
• Spatiotemporal analysis of NPP difference
 Study Area
Wuling mountainous area (25°52′–31°24′ N, 107°4′–112°2′ E)
in the south central China.
The vegetation types are evergreen broadleaf forest (EBF), evergreen
coniferous forest (ECF), deciduous broadleaf forest (DBF), and mixed
broadleaf conifer forest (MBCF), Shrub, Grass Land, and Crop Land.
 Climate data

 Interpolation algorithm used ANUSPLIN 4.2

software to get the NPP estimation and solar
radiation data
 With and without the longitude and latitude were
used as independent variables
 Equation

• S is Daily solar radiation

• a and b are the empirical constants which vary with the
geographical locations
– (a and b are assigned 0.0058 and 0.17)
• N is the sunshine duration
• N0 is the maximum possible sunshine duration estimated from the
latitude (φ) and solar declination (δ)

• S0 is the extraterrestrial solar radiation

 Model description
The BEPS MODEL
1. Biophysical parameters are modified based on the vegetation
type according to previous studies
2. Interpolation results based on the ANUSPLIN
3. The algorithm for calculating daily global solar radiation by
ANUSPLIN
 Data acquisition and processing
Land cover, Feng et al. (2007)

• The land cover map of

Wuling mountainous area
is part of a 2010 nation
wide land cover map with
more than 30 classes
originally, regrouped the
land cover types into 13
categories
 Data acquisition and processing
LAI, Deng et al., (2006) Soil data, Nanjing Institute of
Geography & Limnology,
• the GLOBCARBON algorithm Chinese Academy of Sciences
– The LAI data was derived from
extraction with the usage of
boundary vector of Wuling
mountainous area.

The AWC data was derived from

Harmonized World Soil Database
(HWSD, version 1.2) which was
compiled using the European Soil
Database (ESDB)
 Data acquisition and processing
Daily meteorological data
 Daily meteorological observation
data including maximum
temperature, minimum
temperature, precipitation,
relative humidity, sunshine
duration, and solar radiation in
2010 is available from China
Meteorological Data Sharing
Service System
 Conventional meteorological
variables using ANUSPLIN based
on data of 69 stations
 Data acquisition and processing
Forest biomass data, Luo (1996), Guo et al., (2002).

• A and B are cover-type dependent parameters

• The unit of AGB is t/hm2

 Only used the vegetation type had not been changed

compared with the land cover in 2010
 Simulation experiments

Spatio-temporal
Input analysis of NPP
Climate difference
variables Two climate datasets :
1) With topographical was referred as
Input terrain-based climate dataset,
climate 2) Without topographical was called
ordinary climate dataset
dataset
Climate variables were divided into 4 groups :
(1) Maximum and minimum temperature
(2) Precipitation
(3) Humidity
(4) Solar radiation
 Spatio-temporal analysis of NPP difference

used line charts to

NPP visualize the
difference spatial variation
Standard within each characteristics of
deviation of interval the NPP
Calculated two NPP difference
mean value estimations
Divided the
altitude,
slope, and
aspect data
into several
intervals
 The spatial distribution of NPP difference was calculated
through terrain-based NPP minus ordinary NPP pixel by pixel
 topographical influences on NPP estimation can from various aspects, such as soil nutrient transformation
 The total area is approximately 171,800 km2 and the altitude ranges from −9 to 2979 m above sea level.
Most of lands in the study area are hillsides with the mean slope of 15°.
 Mean annual temperature is 13.5–17.0 °C
 Mean annual precipitation is from 1100 to 1600 mm
Result
• Comparison and validation of two
climate datasets
• Topographical effects of climatic inputs
on NPP estimation
• Spatiotemporal characteristics of the
NPP difference
• Primary climate variables contributing
to the NPP difference
Comparison and validation of two climate
datasets

Terrain-based : With topographical

Topographical effects of climatic
inputs on NPP estimation

terrain-based NPP was higher than ordinary NPP

Spatio-temporal characteristics of
the NPP difference

terrain-based NPP was higher than ordinary NPP

Primary climate variables contributing
to the NPP difference

 NPP estimated from ordinary climate

dataset was 12.5% lower than terrain-
climate dataset

 The precipitation and humidity, including

topographical effects or not did not
change the NPP results much
Discussion
• In Wuling mountainous area, the rainfall is
plentiful, so precipitation and humidity are
not the main factors impacting the
variation of NPP
• Terrain based NPP as the reference, but
terrain-based NPP is not actually the true
NPP
• The relative difference of NPP is very likely
greater than 12.5% without topographical
effects during simulations of climate data
for Wuling mountainous area
Conclusions
• To evaluate the topographical effects of
climatic inputs on NPP calculations
• Terrain-based climate dataset has closer
agreements with the station observations
compared with ordinary climate dataset
• Ordinary climate dataset underestimates
the mean NPP by 12.5% compared with
terrain-based climate dataset
• Topographical effects of climatic inputs
have impacts on the NPP estimation
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