Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeIntroduction: Observing the Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance.- Observing a Vulnerable Carbon Cycle.- Assimilation and Network Design.- Quantifying Fossil Fuel CO2 over Europe.- Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions.- Issues in Establishing In Situ Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Networks in Europe and in Regions of Interest to Europe.- Estimating Sources and Sinks of Methane: An Atmospheric View.- Designing an Observation Strategy for N2O.- Monitoring Carbon Stock Changes in European Soils: Process Understanding and Sampling Strategies.- Monitoring Carbon Stock Changes in European Forests Using Forest Inventory Data.- Flux Tower Sites, State of the Art, and Network Design.- Observations and Status of Peatland Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe.- Towards a Full Accounting of the Greenhouse Gas Balance of European Grasslands.- Regional Measurements and Modelling of Carbon Exchange.- Using Satellite Observations in Regional Scale Calculations of Carbon Exchange.- The Lateral Carbon Pump, and the European Carbon Balance.- Multiple Constraint Estimates of the European Carbon Balance.- A Roadmap for a Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Observing System in Europe.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: CarboEurope GHG and goals of the book.- Methods and requirements for a global carbon data assimilation schemes.- Optimizing the observation network.- Improving model parameters from sparse observations.- Effective sampling of soil carbon at European scale.- Effective sampling of ecosystem fluxes: a bottom up perspective.- Full GHG accounting of grasslands.- Observation of CH4 emissions from wetlands.- State of the art carbon inventories and ways to use them for carbon cycle research.- Lateral C-fluxes.- Top down constraints from atmospheric observations and models on the European carbon balance.- Variability and mean CH4 fluxes.- Quantifying fossil fuel emissions.- Inventories of fossil fuel emissions and downscaling to higher temporal and spatial scales.- Riverine transport of carbon and nitrogen.- Use of Satellite information to determine GHG fluxes.- Issues in establishing GHG concentration monitoring networks.- Designing a observation strategy for N2O.- Synthesis: where do we stand with the current observation strategy and where do we go?