Vegetation model

The vegetation models are models that, as part of a climate model, represent the interactions between vegetation , soils and the earth's atmosphere . These models become more and more important with increasing spatial resolution. Especially in meso and microscale models, the effects of the vegetation cover on the atmosphere are enormous. In earlier models, the plant cover was either parameterized, or heterogeneous vegetation cover was combined into one characteristic value. This may be useful for macro-scale climate models, but it can lead to avoidable inaccuracies in a regional climate model.

Daisyworld is a deliberately simple and yet very instructive vegetation model . It represents an academic object and only reproduces actual vegetation to a very limited extent.