Final Activity Report Summary - MARIECURIE-ILEAPS (MarieCurie-iLEAPS - A Training program under a theme of "Integrated Land Ecosystem and Atmospheric Processes Study",Theory and Applications)
The goal of the MARIE CURIE-ILEAPS training program was to improve our understanding of land ecosystem - atmospheric processes behind the global change. The programme included a training programme of four events targeted to theoretical and methodological aspects of the transport and transform energy and matter between land ecosystems and atmosphere. The training programme was part of the ILEAPS, which is a core-project of IGBP, the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.
The content of the MARIECURIE-ILEAPS events were based scientific focus of the ILEAPS-IGBP program having a series of training courses under the titles of:
1) integrated measurements over land ecosystem atmosphere boundaries; 2) towards a process-based description of trace gas emissions in land surface models; 3) model-data assimilation, recent progress and future needs; and
4) integrated land ecosystem - atmosphere processes - key caps in current understanding (please see http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/marie-curie-iLEAPS(opens in new window) online).
Four events during 2007-2008 having a hands on training of the measurement techniques and model testing and being a forum for theoretical discussions and teaching were organised by three program partners; University of Helsinki, University of Lund and Commissariat a l'Engergie Atomique, CEA. Summaries of scientific outcomes are disseminated via articles in IGBP newsletters.
Event 1: For the first training event, the students were divided into six groups and each group was given the enormous task of designing a perfect measurement station for one of the following parameters / variables: aerosols, carbon, nitrogen, energy, trace gases and water. The students were given a thorough on-site presentation of the SMEAR II station located at Hyytiälä Forestry Field station and to trace gas measurements (methane) on a close-by peatland, Siikaneva, Finland. Having a chance to see instrumentation with online measurements and in the same time have an explanation of what is happening inside the instrument proved to be invaluable.
Event II: A conference was organised on developing a better process-based description of trace gas emissions in land surface models, and held in October 2007 in Helsinborg, Sweden. The meeting was attended by nearly 70 participants, of which 78 % were eligible (PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers). The participants came from 21 different countries, one quarter of the total number was from outside the EU. From the event a major review paper was prepared, which is currently in review; there will also be a special issue of the IGBP/ILEAPS newsletter with a total of 6/7 contributions from young and senior researchers who attended the meeting.
Event III: A course at the Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Finland was the third part in the Marie Curie -ILEAPS series of events. The scientific disciplines of the participants included agronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, forestry, physics, meteorology and other geosciences. The groups worked together intensively for the entire course, mainly analysing data from SMEAR II station in Hyytiälä to find connections between biological, physical and chemical phenomena.
Event IV: The fourth event, a conference, was organised in La Badine, France The objective of event IV is to bring together most scientists (young and senior) involved in the field of understanding the role terrestrial biosphere plays in the climate system (changes, transitions, extremes) at the regional to global scale, and to make a firm status on the present knowledge of these interactions and the remaining parts to be explored.
The content of the MARIECURIE-ILEAPS events were based scientific focus of the ILEAPS-IGBP program having a series of training courses under the titles of:
1) integrated measurements over land ecosystem atmosphere boundaries; 2) towards a process-based description of trace gas emissions in land surface models; 3) model-data assimilation, recent progress and future needs; and
4) integrated land ecosystem - atmosphere processes - key caps in current understanding (please see http://www.atm.helsinki.fi/marie-curie-iLEAPS(opens in new window) online).
Four events during 2007-2008 having a hands on training of the measurement techniques and model testing and being a forum for theoretical discussions and teaching were organised by three program partners; University of Helsinki, University of Lund and Commissariat a l'Engergie Atomique, CEA. Summaries of scientific outcomes are disseminated via articles in IGBP newsletters.
Event 1: For the first training event, the students were divided into six groups and each group was given the enormous task of designing a perfect measurement station for one of the following parameters / variables: aerosols, carbon, nitrogen, energy, trace gases and water. The students were given a thorough on-site presentation of the SMEAR II station located at Hyytiälä Forestry Field station and to trace gas measurements (methane) on a close-by peatland, Siikaneva, Finland. Having a chance to see instrumentation with online measurements and in the same time have an explanation of what is happening inside the instrument proved to be invaluable.
Event II: A conference was organised on developing a better process-based description of trace gas emissions in land surface models, and held in October 2007 in Helsinborg, Sweden. The meeting was attended by nearly 70 participants, of which 78 % were eligible (PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers). The participants came from 21 different countries, one quarter of the total number was from outside the EU. From the event a major review paper was prepared, which is currently in review; there will also be a special issue of the IGBP/ILEAPS newsletter with a total of 6/7 contributions from young and senior researchers who attended the meeting.
Event III: A course at the Hyytiälä Forestry Field Station, Finland was the third part in the Marie Curie -ILEAPS series of events. The scientific disciplines of the participants included agronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, forestry, physics, meteorology and other geosciences. The groups worked together intensively for the entire course, mainly analysing data from SMEAR II station in Hyytiälä to find connections between biological, physical and chemical phenomena.
Event IV: The fourth event, a conference, was organised in La Badine, France The objective of event IV is to bring together most scientists (young and senior) involved in the field of understanding the role terrestrial biosphere plays in the climate system (changes, transitions, extremes) at the regional to global scale, and to make a firm status on the present knowledge of these interactions and the remaining parts to be explored.