Objective
The carbon Environmental Service (CARBONES) will provide the first multi-decadal reanalysis of the global carbon cycle and a service to provide a rolling update of this analysis. This will include the "essential climate variables" (defined by the Global Climate Observing System) of atmospheric carbon dioxide, leaf area and biomass in various categories. No integrated reanalysis includes these climate variables. This reanalysis will combine the primary long-term observations of the terrestrial and oceanic carbon-cycles (atmospheric concentrations, remotely-sensed surface properties and in-situ ecological measurements) using data assimilation techniques. The service will provide a well-founded baseline for predicting future responses of the carbon-cycle to climate change, and for services such as the Atmospheric and Land Service. It will also act as a benchmark for these core services during the period of overlap. The primary users for the reanalysis are climate modellers who need an initial condition for their predictions and, for the same reason, groups calculating changes in carbon stocks. Thus a benefit will be an independent check, globally, on reporting of carbon inventories for the United Nations Framework on Climate Change. Access to the results will be provided by a flexible and user-friendly web-interface The techniques used for the reanalysis will also be used, in conjunction with the core services, to provide a rolling update on the state of the carbon cycle. This will evolve towards an operational, integrated, carbon-cycle monitoring capacity as a potential downstream service.
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Call for proposal
FP7-SPACE-2009-1
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Funding Scheme
CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
31670 LABEGE
France
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Participants (14)
75015 PARIS 15
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CB2 1SJ CAMBRIDGE
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80539 Munchen
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EC4A 3BF LONDON
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31100 Toulouse
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8092 Zuerich
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6708 PB Wageningen
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70174 Stuttgart
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100871 BEIJING
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AB24 3FX ABERDEEN
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EX1 3PB Exeter
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80100 Joensuu
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91390 MORSANG SUR ORGE
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BN43 5FG Shoreham By Sea West Sussex
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