Konstantina Bika¹, Matthias Forkel², Wouter Dorigo², Arden Burrell¹, Elena A. Kukavskaya³ and Kirsten Barrett¹, (1)Centre for Landscape and Climate Research, School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (2)Vienna University of Technology, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna, Austria, (3)V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences - separate subdivision of the FRC KSC SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia