| Article ID: | iaor19921005 |
| Country: | Austria |
| Volume: | 1989 (Aug), 3-7045-0095-X, 58 pp., 7.00, RR-8 |
| Start Page Number: | 105 |
| End Page Number: | 119 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Journal: | IIASA Reports |
| Authors: | Prentice Colin, et al. |
| Keywords: | simulation: applications, agriculture & food |
This report provides the initial substantive description of a global vegetation model which was generated through the interactions of eighteen graduate students, visitors and resident scholars at IIASA during the summer of 1988. Independent but related activities in modifying detailed dynamic models of boreal forest systems are described here as well. This particular summer workshop, in attracting a critical mass of highly qualified scientists to IIASA for several months, has proven to be extremely advantageous in attacking difficult, complex, and interdisciplinary scientific problems.