Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Airborne trace gas measurements and mesoscale modelling
Inverse data-driven estimation
Integrating surface-atmosphere Exchange Processes Across Scales - Modeling and Monitoring
Tall Tower Atmospheric Gas Measurements
Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation
Satellite-based remote sensing of greenhouse gases
![]() | Constraining the role of the Amazon in Global Greenhouse Gas Balance and Climate ATTO 5/2017 - 6/2021 contact: Susan Trumbore, Jost Lavric, Christoph Gerbig webpage | |
![]() | Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases VERIFY 1/2018 - 12/2021 contact: Martin Jung, Christoph Gerbig webpage Activities in VERIFY are targeted towards developing a pre-operational system to quantify greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O) across the EU based on independent observations in support of inventories that rely only on statistical data. It integrates atmospheric measurements, improved emission inventories, ecosystem data, and satellite observations to estimate anthropogenic and natural GHG emissions and sinks, including their attribution to processes and sectors. The projects outputs help to deliver policy-relevant information to track progress of the EU mitigation efforts to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement on Climate. | |
![]() | Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, Knowledge, Dissemination and Outreach CRESCENDO 11/2015 - 3/2021 contact: Sönke Zaehle webpage The CRESCENDO project aims to facilitate a coordinated European contribution to the CMIP6 experiment where the climate change community compares different international climate models to improve our knowledge of the Earth’s climate processes and provide the best possible future climate projections to governments and decision-makers Earth system models are increasingly the primary tools used for estimating the full Earth system response to future emissions of greenhouse gases. Hence it is crucial these models are continually improved in order that more reliable future climate projections can be made. | |
![]() | Permafrost thaw and the changing arctic coast: science for socio-economic adaptation NUNATARYUK 11/2017 - 10/2022 contact: Mathias Göckede webpage | |
![]() | Integrated Arctic Observation System INTAROS 12/2016 - 11/2021 contact: Mathias Goeckede webpage | |
![]() | Inverse modeling of GHG fluxes using the CarboScope regional inversion system ICOS-ERIC 4/2012 - 12/2025 contact: Christoph Gerbig | |
![]() | Modelling the effect of silcon and calcium avaibility on the future sustainability of Arctic permafrost carbon pools on laboratory and field experiments CASPER 12/2018 - 11/2021 contact: Mathias Göckede | |
![]() | Prototype system for a Copernicus CO2 service CoCO2 1/2021 - 12/2023 contact: Julia Marshall, Martin Jung CoCO2 is a European project lead by ECMWF to build a monitoring and verification support capability for global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) related to human activities. The future anthropogenic CO2 emission monitoring and verification support capability will support action on climate change in line with the Paris Agreement. Key CoCO2 requirements are to distinguish emissions related to human activities from other sources of CO2 in the atmosphere; monitoring CO2 emissions from local to global scales; and providing uncertainty estimates. | |