Completed Projects

Acronym: 4C
Duration: 6/2019 - 11/2023
PI/Co-PIs: Sönke Zaehle
Participating department members: Sönke Zaehle more

Acronym: ATTO
Duration: 5/2017 - 6/2021
PI/Co-PIs: Susan Trumbore, Jost Lavric, Christoph Gerbig more

Acronym: CASPER
Duration: 12/2018 - 11/2021
PI: Mathias Göckede

Acronym: CHE
Duration: 10/2017 - 12/2020
PI/Co-PIs: Julia Marshall, Martin Jung

The CO₂ Human Emissions project is a European effort to develop a monitoring system for global anthropogenic CO₂ emissions as opposed to variability in atmospheric CO₂ concentrations that is caused by natural processes in order to enable well-informed decision making for greenhouse gas emission reductions, and to monitor policy effectiveness. It combines space-borne observations, ground-based measurements and Earth system models with national emission inventory data.

Acronym: CRESCENDO
Duration: 11/2015 - 3/2021
PI: Sönke Zaehle

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. more

Acronym: ClimGrasHydro
Duration: 5/2019 - 4/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Sönke Zaehle

Acronym: INTAROS
Duration: 12/2016 - 11/2021
PI: Mathias Goeckede more

Acronym: LCC
Duration: 10/2020 - 3/2023
PI/Co-PIs: Sönke Zaehle, Tarek El-Madany
Participating department members: Sönke Zaehle, Tarek El-Madany

Investigate the terrestrial biosphere’s net ecosystem exchange – photosynthetic CO2 uptake minus respiratory CO2 release – response to climatic drivers by means of combining a process-based model with a wide range of observations (in-situ and remotely sensed) on local and regional scale. In the project we are involved in the modelling part and in the field activity. more

Acronym: METHANE+
Duration: 1/2020 - 1/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Sönke Zaehle, Julia Marshall
Participating department members: Julia Marshall

The project combines and calculates methane measurements from different satellites in order to better differentiate the sources and sinks of methane on a regional and global level. more

Acronym: NUNATARYUK
Duration: 11/2017 - 10/2022
PI/Co-PIs: Mathias Göckede
Participating department members: Mathias Göckede more

Acronym: QUINCY
Duration: 9/2015 - 8/2021
PI: Sönke Zaehle

The objective of QUINCY is to clarify the role of the interacting terrestrial nitrogen and phosphorus cycles and their effects on terrestrial C allocation and residence times as well as terrestrial water fluxes. more

Acronym: S5P-FTIR-MPG
Duration: 11/2017 - 10/2020
PI: Dietrich Feist

Acronym: SPP 1685 Phase II
Duration: 2/2017 - 1/2020
PI/Co-PIs: Marion Schrumpf, Sönke Zaehle

The objective of the priority Program 1685 is to investigate the relevance of the ecological paradigm of the ‘whole being more than the sum of its parts’ for P - nutrition of forest ecosystems. Therefore new concepts of ecosystem nutrition and new methods will be developed. We will investigate if there are any adaption mechanism of forest ecosystems to sites with poor P supply, which are not a result of the adaptation of single organisms but of ecological interactions, which enable coordinated nutrient (re-) mobilisation, uptake, usage and storage. more

Acronym: VERIFY
Duration: 1/2018 - 12/2021
PI/Co-PIs: Martin Jung, Christoph Gerbig

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. more