NFI 2012 water budgets and drought stress indicators database

(i) Key message: The NFIWADS database contains aggregated results for the German National Forest Inventory (NFI) plots based on process-based water balance simulations. More than 150 water budget, soil moisture, and drought stress indicators were derived for mature, closed-canopy beech and spruce stands, and provide a basis for the assessment of forest productivity and risks. (ii) Context: The NFI is an important data source for research on forest growth, tree species distribution and wood supply predictions in Germany. The NFIWADS database extends the environmental vector of explanatory variables by results from water balance simulations. (iii) Aims: The aim of this paper is to share the data for a broad use among forest scientists and to ease data handling by thoroughly describing the methods, background and structure of the data. (iv) Methods: For 24610 NFI plots, two site-specific water balance simulations were carried out, using the process-based hydrological model LWF-BROOK90, respectively for a retrospective period (1961-2013) and for each of three climate change scenarios (2011-2050). The two simulations in each climate representation describe the hydrological conditions of European Beech (Fagus sylvatica, L.) and Norway Spruce (Picea abies [L.], H.Karst) forests. (v) Main features and potential use of database: The daily simulation results were aggregated to monthly and vegetation period representations of water fluxes, soil moisture conditions and drought stress that can be used as explanatory variables for analysing long-term climate-sensitive site-productivity relationships and risk potentials, as well as intra-annual and seasonal variations of forest growth conditions. (vi) Conclusions: The connection of yield data and a broad set of environmental explanatory variables at the NFI opens up new opportunities for forest research at the national scale.

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Date (Creation)
2018-11-09
Presentation form
sqlite database files
Purpose

Extend the NFI environmental vector of explanatory variables to open up new possibilities of climate change related forest research on forest growth and risk potentials.
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Thünen-Institute for Forest Ecosystems

Kirchner Till

till.kirchner@thuenen.de

Theme

  • forest inventory / soil water availability / water balance / drought stress / climate change
Place

  • Europe / Germany
Discipline

  • Forest Ecology / Hydrology / Monitoring / Site Ecology
Use limitation

Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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Language

English/German
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Begin date
1961-01-01
End date
2050-12-31

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7.4
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Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.3220/DATA/20181108-095429

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2f09d81c-b663-48a0-8b84-0b247bba6d35 XML
Metadata language

eng
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Dataset
Date stamp
2019-03-05T09:57:24
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Northwestgerman Forest Research Institute

Schmidt-Walter Paul

paul.schmidt-walter@nw-fva.de

 
 

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Keywords

Forest Ecology / Hydrology / Monitoring / Site Ecology forest inventory / soil water availability / water balance / drought stress / climate change

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