European carbon sink larger than presumed

Analyzing satellite data environmental physicists from University Bremen in cooperation with national and international partners, amongst them Christoph Gerbig from MPI for Biogeochemistry, could show that the vegetation of the northern hemisphere is taking up more CO₂ than presumed.

Original Publication: Reuter, M., Buchwitz, M., Hilker, M., Heymann, J., Schneising, O., Pillai, D., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Bösch, H., Parker, R., Butz, A., Hasekamp, O., O'Dell, C. W., Yoshida, Y., Gerbig, C., Nehrkorn, T., Deutscher, N. M., Warneke, T., Notholt, J., Hase, F., Kivi, R., Sussmann, R., Machida, T., Matsueda, H., and Sawa, Y.: Satellite-inferred European carbon sink larger than expected, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 13739-13753, doi:10.5194/acp-14-13739-2014, 2014.