TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Research Alliance Modelling Platform (GRAMP): An open web platform for modelling greenhouse gas emissions from agro-ecosystems
AU - Yeluripati, JB
AU - del Prado, A
AU - Sanz-Cobena, A
AU - Rees, RM
AU - Li, C
AU - Chadwick, D
AU - Tilston, E
AU - Topp, CFE
AU - Cardenas, LM
AU - Ingraham, P
AU - Gilhespy, S
AU - Anthony, S
AU - Vetter, SH
AU - Misselbrook, T
AU - Salas, W
AU - Smith, P
N1 - 2047560
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) process-based models are important tools for estimating and reporting
greenhouse gas emissions and changes in soil C stocks. There is a need for continuous evaluation, development
and adaptation of these models to improve scientific understanding, national inventories and
assessment of mitigation options across the world. To date, much of the information needed to describe
different processes like transpiration, photosynthesis, plant growth and maintenance, above and below
ground carbon dynamics, decomposition and nitrogen mineralization.
In ecosystem models remains inaccessible to the wider community, being stored within model computer
source code, or held internally by modelling teams. Here we describe the Global Research Alliance
Modelling Platform (GRAMP), a web-based modelling platform to link researchers with appropriate datasets,
models and training material. It will provide access to model source code and an interactive platform
for researchers to form a consensus on existing methods, and to synthesize new ideas, which will help to
advance progress in this area. The platform will eventually support a variety of models, but to trial the
platform and test the architecture and functionality, it was piloted with variants of the DNDC model.
The intention is to form a worldwide collaborative network (a virtual laboratory) via an interactive website
with access to models and best practice guidelines; appropriate datasets for testing, calibrating and
evaluating models; on-line tutorials and links to modelling and data provider research groups, and their
associated publications. A graphical user interface has been designed to view the model development tree
and access all of the above functions.
2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
AB - Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) process-based models are important tools for estimating and reporting
greenhouse gas emissions and changes in soil C stocks. There is a need for continuous evaluation, development
and adaptation of these models to improve scientific understanding, national inventories and
assessment of mitigation options across the world. To date, much of the information needed to describe
different processes like transpiration, photosynthesis, plant growth and maintenance, above and below
ground carbon dynamics, decomposition and nitrogen mineralization.
In ecosystem models remains inaccessible to the wider community, being stored within model computer
source code, or held internally by modelling teams. Here we describe the Global Research Alliance
Modelling Platform (GRAMP), a web-based modelling platform to link researchers with appropriate datasets,
models and training material. It will provide access to model source code and an interactive platform
for researchers to form a consensus on existing methods, and to synthesize new ideas, which will help to
advance progress in this area. The platform will eventually support a variety of models, but to trial the
platform and test the architecture and functionality, it was piloted with variants of the DNDC model.
The intention is to form a worldwide collaborative network (a virtual laboratory) via an interactive website
with access to models and best practice guidelines; appropriate datasets for testing, calibrating and
evaluating models; on-line tutorials and links to modelling and data provider research groups, and their
associated publications. A graphical user interface has been designed to view the model development tree
and access all of the above functions.
2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
KW - Biogeochemical modelling
KW - Climate change
KW - Ecosystems
KW - Greenhouse gas emissions
KW - Integrated modelling platform
KW - Unified modelling approach
U2 - 10.1016/j.compag.2014.11.016
DO - 10.1016/j.compag.2014.11.016
M3 - Article
VL - 111
SP - 112
EP - 120
JO - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
JF - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
ER -