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Saqr Munassar PhD Researcher Phone: + 49 3641 57 6361 fax: + 49 3641 57 7300 email: smunas@bgc-jena.mpg.de

Research Focus:

Having been a PhD researcher at the MPI-BGC Signals, I conduct a research project in collaboration with the Research Project of VERIFY (funded by the European Commission, H2020). The goal is to develop a pre-operational inverse system to quantify CO2 flux budgets over Europe at continental and national scales based on independent verification using a top-down method, by the means of the Paris Climate Agreement. I use Jena Carboscope Regional inversion system (CSR) (Rödenbeck, 2005) to optimize the Net Ecosystem Exchaneg (NEE) using atmospheric data based on Bayesian inference.

Research Interests:

• Inverse modeling of greenhouse gas budgets (GHGs) in the mesoscales.
• Atmospheric Physics and climate system
• Understanding the interaction between the biosphere and the atmosphere under the changing climate
• Troposphere retrievals using satellite remote sensing monitoring
• DATA processing and visalisation using R programming

Research Activities:

• Develepment of a pre-operational inverse system at regional scales to quantify GHGs budget
• Reporting deliverables to the research Project on annual basis
• Writing publications and contributing datasets to the Peer-reviewed journals

Projects:

• VERIFY (EU H2020)
• CoCO2

CV:

• 2018-present: A PhD studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry within the IMPRS programme, Jena, Germany
• 2015-2017: Master studies at the Environmental Physics Institute (IUP), Bremen University, Germany
• 2012-2014: A member of a research group working on nanoparticle applications in the environment, jointly in the Physics and Chemistry departments, IBB University
• 2010-present: An academic staff member at the department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, IBB University, Yemen
• 2006-2009: Bachelor studies in Physics, IBB Univeristy, Yemen
• 2008.7-2008.8: An internship at the Physics department of El Menoufia University, Egypt, on Solid State Physics