Elisabet Lewan
Research
Research interests
Agroecosystems & Climate Change
Crop modelling, carbon and nitrogen flows
Climate impacts on water and solute transport in soils
Water and energy fluxes in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere continuum
SVAT-modelling and processoriented simulation models
Current & recent research projects
- Modelling Cover Crop services and disservices in a changing climate: The trade-off between crop yield, nitrogen losses and carbon sequestration in arable land, PI: E. Lewan, FORMAS 2021-2026.
- Soil structure and soil degradation: improved model tools to meet sustainable development goals under climate and land use change (Partner/Co-applicant. PI: N. Jarvis), FORMAS, 2019.
- Uncertainties in the regulation of carbon mineralisation by soil moisture - Implications for modelling sustainable cropping systems under climate change. Co-applicant. PI: E Coucheney, FORMAS 2019 - 2024.
- IMPRINT - The human Imprint on land-atmosphere exchange in high latitudes. Research partner. PI: Stephanie Eisner (NIBIO, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research), KLIMAFORSK, 2019-2022.
- Exploiting yield gaps for sustainable intensification of winter wheat production, Research partner. PI: Bo Stenberg. FORMAS, 2017-2019.
- Quantifying Uncertainties in Future Projections of Swedish Surface Water Quality (Project partner/co-applicant, PI: M. Futter) FORMAS, 2016-2018.
- Climate change Impacts on Water balance and Nitrate leaching in Swedish arable land. Risk assessments and Uncertainty analyses. PI (FORMAS )
- Pesticide leaching in a changed climate - Risk assessments of losses to surface and groundwater (SLF -2014). PI