Overview

The Biogeochemical Signals department is a newly formed department succeeding the former Biogeochemical Systems department headed by Prof. Dr. Martin Heimann, and the former research group on Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling. The department investigates large-scale signals of biospheric processes and their feedbacks to the climate system. We integrate bottom-up process-driven modeling with top-down constraints inferred from remote-sensing, atmospheric observations and atmospheric inversions. We aim to utilize novel data sources to develop a better predictive understanding of important land-based processes at local to global scales. Our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of recent biogeochemical patterns and trends, as well as to improve predictions of land-climate feedbacks and of the consequences of climate mitigation efforts in future decades.

Latest Key Result

Botía, S., et al. (2021). The CO2 record at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory: A new opportunity to study processes on seasonal and inter-annual scales. Global Change Biology, 00, 1– 24. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15905

Latest publications

	Custódio, D., Borrego, C., Relvas, H. (2022). Worldwide evaluation of CAMS-EGG4 CO2 data re-analysis at the surface level. Toxics, 10(6): 331. doi:10.3390/toxics10060331.
	Munassar, S., Rödenbeck, C., Koch, F.-T., Totsche, K. U., Galkowski, M., Walther, S., Gerbig, C. (2022). Net ecosystem exchange (NEE) estimates 2006–2019 over Europe from a pre-operational ensemble-inversion system. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(12), 7875-7892. doi:10.5194/acp-22-7875-2022.
	Swolkien, J., Fix, A., Galkowski, M. (2022). Factors that influence the temporal variability of atmospheric methane emission from Upper Silesia coal mines: A case study from CoMet mission. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions. doi:10.5194/acp-2022-243.
	van der Woude, A. M., de Kok, R., Smith, N., Luijkx, I. T., Botia, S., Karstens, U., Kooijmans, L. M. J., Koren, G., Meijer, H., Steeneveld, G.-J., Storm, I., Super, I., Scheeren, B. A., Vermeulen, A., Peters, W. (2022). Near real-time CO2 fluxes from CarbonTracker Europe for high resolution atmospheric modeling. Earth System Science Data Discussions. doi:10.5194/essd-2022-175.
	Wang, K., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Wang, X., Rödenbeck, C., Gentine, P., Chevallier, F., Humphrey, V. W., Huntingford, C., O'Sullivan, M., Seneviratne, S. I., Sitch, S., Piao, S. (2022). Regional and seasonal partitioning of water and temperature controls on global land carbon uptake variability. Nature Communications, 13: 3469. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31175-w.