Model development and GIS

Kytalyk Carbon Cycle Research represents at least 25 years of experience with application development, development and application of models, and application of geographical information systems (GIS). These have become major instruments in both research and policy development in environment, earth science and climate.

Our experience includes operating systems ranging from Unix to Windows, and programming languages as C++, Python, Matlab, and GIS system QGIS. We know the limits of model applications very well and you may expect from us a sensible approach to maximize usefulness of any application.

Models which the founder of Kytalyk Carbon Cycle Research has initiated and has continued to contribute to:

Peatland-VU is a plot-scale model to compute greenhouse gas emission from peat soils. Its capabilities include permafrost soils an soils under agricultural land use. It has proven is value in diverse research projects.

Thawlakes: a stochastic model voor computation of thaw lake (thermokarst lake) expansion in ice-rich permafrost (VAN HUISSTEDEN, Jꎬ, et al. Methane emissions from permafrost thaw lakes limited by lake drainage. Nature Climate Change, 2011, 1.2: 119-123)