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| Titel |
Understanding and quantifying greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions: the UK GHG Emissions and Feedback Programme |
| VerfasserIn |
Stephan Matthiesen, Paul Palmer, Andrew Watson, Mathew Williams |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2016
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
en
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 18 (2016) |
| Datensatznummer |
250132687
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2016-13217.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| We give an overview over the structure, objectives, and methods of the UK-based Greenhouse
Gases Emissions and Feedback Programme. The overarching objective of this research
programme is to deliver improved GHG inventories and predictions for the UK, and for the
globe at a regional scale.
To address this objective, the Programme has developed a comprehensive, multi-year and
interlinked measurement and data analysis programme, focussing on the major GHGs carbon
dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).
The Programme integrates three UK research consortia with complementary objectives,
focussing on observation and modelling in the atmosphere, the oceans, and the terrestrial
biosphere:
GAUGE (Greenhouse gAs Uk and Global Emissions) will produce robust
estimates of the UK GHG budget, using new and existing atmospheric
measurement networks and modelling activities at a range of scales. It
integrates inter-calibrated information from ground-based, airborne, ferry-borne,
balloon-borne, and space-borne sensors, including new sensor technology.
The GREENHOUSE (Generating Regional Emissions Estimates with a Novel
Hierarchy of Observations and Upscaled Simulation Experiments) project aims
to understand the spatio-temporal patterns of biogenic GHG emissions in the
UK’s landscape of managed and semi-managed ecosystems. It uses existing UK
field data and several targeted new measurement campaigns to build regional
GHG inventories and improve the capabilities of land surface models.
RAGNARoCC (Radiatively active gases from the North Atlantic Region and
Climate Change) is an oceanographic project to investigate the air-sea fluxes of
GHGs in the North Atlantic region. Through dedicated research cruises as well as
data collection from ships of opportunity, it develops a comprehensive budget of
natural and anthropogenic components of the carbon cycle in the North Atlantic
and a better understanding of why the air-sea fluxes of CO2 vary regionally,
seasonally and multi-annually.
Integration activities link these three projects to foster knowledge exchange
across different scales, methods and sub-disciplines, both within the Programme
and with the wider research community.
The three projects are integrated to improve our understanding of greenhouse gases across
domains and scales. The observational components lay the foundation of new measurement
infrastructure that will deliver beyond the lifetime of this Programme. Through the
development of robust methods to reduce uncertainties in GHG emissions estimates, the
Programme supports regulatory efforts to monitor emissions trends and the efficacy of
reduction strategies. |
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