Modeling nitrogen deposition in global forests
Book chapter, 2023

Understanding the spatial patterns and temporal dynamics of nitrogen (N) deposition is a prerequisite to evaluate its ecological impacts on global forests that cover nearly one third of the land area and provide fundamental ecosystem services. Although regional monitoring networks together with independent and short-term studies have provided important insights into the characteristics of N deposition in regional forests, the assessments and mapping of rates, components and seasonality of N deposition have rarely been conducted for global forests. This chapter summarizes the approaches in modeling N deposition to forests, reviews the modeling studies of N deposition to regional and global forested areas, and presents modeling estimates of N deposition for base year 2015 across global forests using the Meteorological Synthesizing Center—West of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Program (EMEP MSC-W) model. Particularly, modeling results are presented to show the seasonality of N deposition on global forests.

Wet deposition

Dry deposition

Nitrogen deposition

Modeling

Forest biomes

Author

Donna B. Schwede

United States Environmental Protection Agency

David Simpson

Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Geoscience and Remote Sensing

F. Dentener

Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission

Enzai Du

Beijing Normal University

W. de Vries

Wageningen University and Research

Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to Global Forests

39-55
9780323911405 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences

Forest Science

Environmental Sciences

DOI

10.1016/B978-0-323-91140-5.00009-9

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