The global carbon cycle and its perturbation by man and climate

Objective

The objectives of the project are to provide an inventory of the distribution of the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide on a regional basis, an assessment of the relative storage capacities of the different carbon pools, and of the dynamics of the global carbon cycle as it reacts to climate changes.

The entire project is subdivided into six sub-projects, each focusing on a different aspect of the global carbon cycle:
A. Observations of the concentration of atmospheric CO2 and CH4 and their isotope ratios.
B. Air-sea exchange and dynamics of the surface ocean carbon system.
C. Assessment of internal oceanic processes.
D. Exchanges of carbon with the terrestrial biosphere.
E. Information based on variations of the carbon cycle in the past.
F. Global scale three-dimensional modelling of the contemporary carbon cycle.

Programme(s)

• FP2-EPOCH - Two specific research and technological development programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment STEP/EPOCH - EPOCH -, 1989-1992

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.

Address

Bundesstra¯e 55
20146 Hamburg
Germany

Participants (10)

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE

France

Address

Rue Molière 54, Université De Grenoble 1
38402 Saint-martin-d'heres

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

France

Address

14 Avenue Edouard Belin
31400 Toulouse

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

France

Address

Avenue De La Terrasse
91198 Gif-sur-yvette

JUSTUS-LIEBIG-UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN

Germany

Address

Ludwigstrasse 23
35390 Giessen

Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität Frankfurt

Germany

Address

Marie-curie-straße 11
60439 Frankfurt Am Main

NERC Centre of Coastal and Marine Sciences

United Kingdom

Address

Prospect Place West Hoe
PL1 3DH Plymouth

RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG

Germany

Address

Im Neuenheimer Feld 229
69117 Heidelberg

UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS VI

France

Address

Place Jussieu 4
75252 Paris

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

United Kingdom

Address

University Plain
Norwich

Université de Liège

Belgium

Address

5,Avenue De Cointe
4000 Liège