Project description
Enhanced ecosystem models to predict and monitor terrestrial carbon cycles
Earth system models widely differ in their estimates for ecosystem carbon absorption. This not only makes it difficult to predict future climate conditions, but also inhibits policy implementation to mitigate them. To address this, the EU-funded CONCERTO project aims to bolster EU ecosystem research by establishing a consortium of experts in Earth observation, modelling processes, data assimilation and machine learning. It will produce high-resolution maps featuring carbon cycling layers for land cover and management, as well as biomass production. By incorporating new data sources, it will also shed light on ecosystem responses to and vegetation recovery from fires and climate extremes. Overall, CONCERTO will demonstrate efficient models that improve understanding and facilitate monitoring of the terrestrial carbon cycle.
Objective
Earth system models (ESM) show diverging estimates of ecosystem carbon (C) uptake which drives persistent uncertainty about future climate and limits the realization of policy mitigation goals. The CONCERTO project aims to strengthen the European research ecosystem by creating an innovative scientific collaborative framework that enhances our understanding, monitoring, and modelling of the terrestrial cycle (CC), and leads to reduced uncertainty and ESM convergence. This framework has three main elements: the exploitation of novel Earth Observation (EO) data, the innovation of process models fed by these data, and Data Assimilation (DA) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques. The consortium includes European experts and institutes active in these areas.
CONCERTO will advance the representation of land cover, leaf area index (LAI) and management intensity through new maps of high resolution with layers relevant for the CC. The new management map will enhance the creation of a new biomass production map. Further, CONCERTO will prepare for the ingestion of FLEX data in land surface models (LSM) through DA, and exploit Sentinel-5P/TROPOMI HCHO indicative of biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. As step towards moving away from prior (static) parameterizations, the novel P model will be used to ingest these new data sources. This will enhance understanding of ecosystems responses to climate extremes, fires, and vegetation recovery from them, and the parameterization of LSMs included in ESMs. Novel representations of the underrepresented processes of lateral carbon fluxes through outgassing of CO2 from rivers will be developed. Dedicated seasonal and climate experiments will demonstrate how improved representation of land surface processes benefit the accuracy and trustworthiness of global Earth System simulation. This will lead to better predictability of the influence of land management on the CC and underpin avenues towards carbon neutrality
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- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems
- agricultural sciences agricultural biotechnology biomass
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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73100 Lecce
Italy
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