Greenhouse gas management in European land use systems. (GHG EUROPE)
The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-model integration, diagnostic and predictive modeling. Models are calibrated by multi-site observations. Research includes CO2, CH4 and N2O in forests, croplands, grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and soils. Via an integrated approach, GHG Europe scales up consistently from local to regional and continental scale via scale dependent error propagation and systematic quantification of uncertainties, model validation at different scales and top-down verification by atmospheric inversion models.
At regional and European scale lateral C transport by land use, trade and rivers is included. Variability in C and GHG budgets is attributed to natural (climate) and anthropogenic drivers (N deposition, land use, past and present management) by synthesis of past and emerging experiments, targeted observations in hot spots and hot moments and model sensitivity analyses. For this purpose, observations are extended to under-sampled regions and ecosystems with likely high importance for the European C budget: forests and land use change in Eastern Europe and Mediterranean shrublands. The future vulnerability of carbon pools and risks of positive feedbacks in the climate-carbon system are assessed by scenario analyses with biophysical models and by integrating feedbacks with socio-economic changes and EU climate and land use policies. GHG-Europe uses a bidirectional interaction with stakeholders to provide regular and timely scientific advice targeted to the emerging needs of the UNFCCC process and for implementing post-2012 climate commitments in Europe.
Universidad de Granada
The GHG-Europe project aims to improve our understanding and capacity for predicting the European terrestrial carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) budget by applying a systematic, comprehensive and integrative approach. GHG-Europe quantifies the annual to decadal variability of the carbon and GHG budgets of terrestrial ecosystems in EU27 plus Switzerland and in six data-rich European regions via data-model integration, diagnostic and predictive modeling. Models are calibrated by multi-site observations. Research includes CO2, CH4 and N2O in forests, croplands, grasslands, shrublands, peatlands and soils. Via an integrated approach, GHG Europe scales up consistently from local to regional and continental scale via scale dependent error propagation and systematic quantification of uncertainties, model validation at different scales and top-down verification by atmospheric inversion models.
At regional and European scale lateral C transport by land use, trade and rivers is included. Variability in C and GHG budgets is attributed to natural (climate) and anthropogenic drivers (N deposition, land use, past and present management) by synthesis of past and emerging experiments, targeted observations in hot spots and hot moments and model sensitivity analyses. For this purpose, observations are extended to under-sampled regions and ecosystems with likely high importance for the European C budget: forests and land use change in Eastern Europe and Mediterranean shrublands. The future vulnerability of carbon pools and risks of positive feedbacks in the climate-carbon system are assessed by scenario analyses with biophysical models and by integrating feedbacks with socio-economic changes and EU climate and land use policies. GHG-Europe uses a bidirectional interaction with stakeholders to provide regular and timely scientific advice targeted to the emerging needs of the UNFCCC process and for implementing post-2012 climate commitments in Europe.
Complete database and synthesis analyses for different CO2 exchange by Mediterranean shrublands.
Workshops. Maps of drivers of greenhouse gas exchanges in forestry, agriculture, and natural ecosystems. Maps of land-use changes. Complete databases and synthesis analyses for different land-use types.
Knowledge to facilitate land-use management for optimal mitigation of global warming
Física de la Atmósfera
Code PAIDI: RNM-119
Andrew S. Kowalski. Socio.
Universidad de Granada
Budget of Andalusian group: € 75,000.00
- KØBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET DENMARK
- AUTONOMOUS PROVINCE OF BOLZANO/BOZEN ITALY
- BUNDESFORSCHUNGSUND AUSBILDUNGSZENTRUM FÜR WALD, NATURGEFAHREN UND LANDSCHAFT AUSTRIA
- UNIWERSYTET PRZYRODNICZY W POZNANIU* POLAND
- FONDAZIONE EDMUND MACH ITALY
- NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL UNITED KINGDOM
- METEOFRANCE FRANCE
- CENTRE TECNOLOGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA SPAIN
- INSTITUTUL DE CERCETARI SI AMENAJARI SILVICE ROMANIA
- COMMISSARIAT A L' ENERGIE ATOMIQUE FRANCE
- UNIVERSITAET INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA
- STICHTING ENERGIEONDERZOEK CENTRUM NEDERLAND NETHERLANDS
- ILMATIETEEN LAITOS FINLAND
- SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS FINLAND
- EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE FINLAND
- UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE ITALY
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA TUSCIA ITALY
- POTSDAM INSTITUT FUER KLIMAFOLGENFORSCHUNG GERMANY
- JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH AUSTRIA
- HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO FINLAND
- ALTERRA B.V. NETHERLANDS
- INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE FRANCE
- UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA LA MANCHA SPAIN
- VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG NETHERLANDS
- WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT NETHERLANDS
- FUNDACION CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRANEO SPAIN
- RUPRECHTKARLSUNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG. GERMANY
- INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE AUSTRIA
- CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE ITALY
- ALMA MATER STUDIORUMUNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA ITALY
- RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN NETHERLANDS
- EIDGENÖSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZÜRICH SWITZERLAND
- UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN BELGIUM
- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN IRELAND
- DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET DENMARK
- MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. GERMANY
- THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN UNITED KINGDOM
- SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET SWEDEN
- UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA SPAIN
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN GERMANY
Keywords: greenhouse gases, global warming, European ecosystems
Duration: 42 months. January, 1th 2010 to June, 30th 2013
Project cost: € 6,648,703.00
