Christoph Gerbig

Since the first measurement flight in 1994, the European research infrastructure IAGOS has developed a measurement technique that is used in commercial airplanes and regularly provide extensive climate data from the atmosphere. more

Within the framework of IAGOS, several projects for the realization of IAGOS infrastructure were carried out at the MPI-BGC under the leadership of Dr. Christoph Gerbig starting in 2005. In particular, the team developed the system for the simultaneous detection of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO₂₎, methane (CH₄), carbon monoxide (CO) and water for continuous application on airliners. more

The sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in Germany are to be better monitored in future. This is the goal of the Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System (ITMS) for Germany, which was officially launched with a three-day meeting from 18 to 20 October 2022 at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena. The ITMS is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and aims to provide the German government and the public with reliable information on the state and development of greenhouse gas fluxes. more

In August and September 2022, the HALO research aircraft is on mission over Canada. Also on board is Dr. habil. Christoph Gerbig, group leader at the MPI for Biogeochemistry. Together with researchers from DLR, the University of Bremen and LMU Munich, the scientists want to find out more about the natural and anthropogenic sources and sinks of methane and carbon dioxide. The CoMet 2.0 Arctic mission will also test new instruments for measuring greenhouse gases. more

Scientists have succeeded in detecting changes in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels much faster than before. Using a new method, they combined atmospheric measurements of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and oxygen (O₂). This allowed them to distinguish between natural CO₂ emissions from the land surface and those from fossil fuels. more