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Scientific
Goal
In
order to achieve the scientific goal of reducing uncertainties
associated with biogenic feedbacks on global environmental
change, the Network will help to advance the understanding
of the key biogeochemical processes that control the atmospheric
content and distributions of radiatively active gases and
aerosols and assess their interactive behaviour with the coupled
land-atmosphere-ocean system.
The
Network is aiming to achieve this through the pursuit of six
key science objectives, each involving different individual
research projects from Greencycles Early-Stage Researchers
(ESRs) and Experienced Researchers (ERs):
1.
Quantify feedbacks in the global carbon cycle
ER
1: Terrestrial
ecosystem process modelling and global feedbacks
ER
3: Terrestrial
carbon/climate coupling and hotspots
ER
4: Ocean
biology and carbon fluxes
ESR
I: Ecosystem
Processes in Mediterranean and Mountain Zones
ESR
IV: Ocean-Atmosphere
CO2 flux observations
ESR
VI: Global
atmospheric CO2 RS data assimilation
system
ESR
VIII: Ecosystem
physiology and C/water dynamics
ESR
XIII: Quantifying the Effect of Biogeochemical
Feedbacks on Global Climate Change
2.
Determine the effects of changing land use on climate
ESR
III: Effect
of agricultural biomass burning and deforestation on the
global carbon cycle
3.
Improve understanding of natural sources of CH4 and their
responses to human activities
ESR
X: Methane
processes and controls
ESR
XI: Hydrology
and scaling
ESR
XII: Global
constraints from icecores
4.
Quantify impacts of climate change and climate variability
on fire-induced emissions of greenhouse gases
ER
2: Land-use and fire: global budgets of GHGs
ESR
IX: Fire
observations and prediction
5.
Quantify impacts of climate change on terrestrial and oceanic
biogenic emissions of aerosols and chemically active gases,
and their effects on tropospheric chemistry
ESR
II: Modelling
BVOC Emissions and their Impact
ESR
V: Ocean
carbon cycle and DMS
6.
Quantify impacts of vegetation and climate changes on atmospheric
dust, and its feedbacks on CO2 and climate.
ER
5: Climate forcing by dust and CH4
ESR
VII: Global
dust sources and consequences
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