In this project we aim to understand the feedback from degrarded peatland ecosystems to the climate and quantify their capacity for mitigating climate change, by means of direct observations and modelling techniques.
This project aims to quantify and understand the effect of more frequent and more intense atmospheric and soil dryness on the carbon uptake of natural ecosystems based on ecosystem-level gas flux observations.
Greenhouse gases don’t see borders. ICOS intends to establish a network of continuous, high-quality and standardized greenhouse gas measurements over Europe, thereby creating a European overall picture.
In CERES, we aim to improve the mechanistic understanding of how changes in tree ecophysiology in response to air pollution and climate extremes drive the forest ecosystem's capacity to sequester C and its evaporative cooling.
Due to climate change the intensity and frequency of bushfires are increasing globally. In EMBER-SIM we aim to develop an interactive web-based fire spread simulation tool, suited for forest and grassland ecosystems.
In COCO aims are to 1) independently validate gross primary production estimates with COS fluxes, 2) to constrain ecosystem respiration estimates using below-canopy fluxes, 3) to quantify advection of CO2, and 4) to identify long-term trends and short-term responses of CO2 fluxes to climate extremes.
CLEANFOREST will address 3 scientific challenges, which call for a holistic perspective of the atmosphere-biosphere interactions along the continuum natural-periurban-urban (NPU) forests in Europe.
This project establishes continuous, on-site measurements of urban–atmosphere CO₂ exchange in Münster using the eddy covariance (EC) technique. A central goal is to evaluate and benchmark inventory-based, bottom-up emission estimates by comparing them with high-temporal-resolution EC data.