Modelling Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Systems
Head: PD Dr. Eckart Priesack
Telephone +49 (0)89 3187-3354
Fax +49 (0)89 3187-3376
Email priesack@helmholtz-muenchen.de
Mission
The change in Earth’s climate influences the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and likewise impacts on human health.
On the one hand human exposures change with regional weather changes mainly through increases in average temperature which may lead to heat waves and other weather extremes such as storms and floods.
On the other hand climatic health effects are often modulated by interactions with ecological and socio-economic processes and in particular by changes in agro-ecosystems and regional hydrology.
Therefore to support the identification, quantification and prediction of health impacts due to climate change it is the aim of the research group to develop land surface and vegetation models which can be linked to regional climate models and improve the description of environmental processes that directly or indirectly affect human health.