Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
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Proceedings of the SPECTRA Workshop - The concept of a space-borne Earth Observation Mission addressing the terrestrial componen
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
CarboEurope is a project cluster, which shall develop methodologies to quantify and to verify the European carbon balance in view of the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Climate Change Convention. In the Kyoto Protocol the European Community has made a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by on average 8%. This reduction commitment can be achieved by also accounting for biological sinks. However, in order to do so, a verifiable methodology is needed in order to report progress in generating such sinks by 2002, and to verify such sinks by 2012. CarboEurope has chosen a dual constraint approach for quantifying the European carbon balance: The European sink is measured and modeled from tropospheric CO2 concentrations. This result is compared with ecosystem inventory data and carbon flux meaurements above vegetation surfaces. CarboEurope has come up with first estimates of the European carbon sink to be between 0.7 Gt C/year based on tropospheric CO2 concentrations and 0.2 Gt C/year based on forest inventories, neglecting additional effects of non-forested ecosystems. The project cluster consists of 9 projects: FORCAST (ecosystem level inventories), CARBOAGE (age and management effects of forests), CARBOEUROFLUX (flux measurements), RECAB (measurements and models in the convective boundary layer), AEROCARB (measurements and models in the troposphere), CARBODATA (synthesis models). EUROSIBERIAN CARBONFLUX and LBA CARBONSINK extend the observations to Siberia and to tropical Amazonia. The Accompanying Measure CARBOEUROPE integrates the projects of the cluster. The total EU contribution is 15 million Euro for year 2000 to 2002/2003.
Dolman H.
Freibauer A.
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