The terrestrial Carbon cycle under Climate Variability and Extremes a Pan-European synthesis (CARBO-EXTREME)

Description:

For contributing to fill the knowledge gap in climate variability and extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle, CARBO-EXTREME focuses on: bringing together and reanalyzing existing long-term carbon cycle related observations; synthesizing and harmonizing new experimental approaches, compiling and adapting latest regional climate scenarios; using a strong model-data integration framework, up to improving assessments of the European carbon cycle under future climate and advice to the European Commission and other stakeholders regarding climate, soil and ecosystem protection policies. The objectives of CARBO-EXTREME are: to obtain a better and more predictive understanding of European terrestrial carbon cycle responses to climate variability and extreme weather events; to identify the most sensitive and vulnerable carbon pools and processes under different scenarios; to map the most likely trajectory of carbon pools in Europe over the 21st century and associated uncertainties; to build a European network of Ecosystem Manipulation Experiments feeding into a harmonized database; to build a consistent multi-source (ecosystem experiments, long-term monitoring of soils, trees and fluxes, remote sensing, riverine transport) database on the European carbon cycle components to study climate variability and extreme events; to perform a Bayesian model calibration and comparison leading to improved terrestrial carbon cycle predictions and their uncertainties in scenario analyses; to give advice to the European Commission and other stakeholders; to support the development and implementation of climate, soil and ecosystem protection policies.

Project information

Lead

MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (DE)

Partners

MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (DE), Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (FR), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (IT), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (CH), Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR), Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. (DE), University of Antwerp (BE), University of Aberdeen (UK), Università della Tuscia (IT), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR), National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University (UK), National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Risø DTU (DK), Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice (RO), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT), Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (ES), Met Office Hadley Centre for (UK), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE), Universität Innsbruck (AT), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL), Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft (CH), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (DE), Lund University (SE), Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (ES), Université Paris-Sud XI, Faculté d'Orsay (FR), University of Alcalá (ES)

Source of funding

FP 7