The following pages are dedicated to various scientific projects for which special FAPAR data have been prepared.
You are invited to visit the following pages but only project partners can access the restricted download pages.
The objective of the Copernicus Cal/Val Solution (CCVS) is to define a holistic solution for all Copernicus Sentinel missions (either operational or planned) to overcome current limitations of Calibration and Validation (Cal/Val) activities.
Operational Cal/Val is required to ensure the quality of and build confidence in Copernicus data.
Visit the project website for more information.
CLIPC will provide access to climate information of direct relevance to a wide variety of users, from scientists to policy makers and private sector decision makers.
Information will include data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, transformed data products to enable impacts assessments and climate change impact indicators.
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QA4ECV aimed to develop a Quality Assurance system for observational data products.
The project implemented a detailed practical demonstration of the Quality Assurance concept concentrating on six Essential Climate Variables (terrestrial and atmosphere), for which harmonized retrievals were obtained using communities best practice.
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FLUXNET is a global network of micrometeorological tower sites that use eddy covariance methods to measure the exchanges of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy between terrestrial ecosystem and atmosphere.
Actually more than 400 tower sites are in service on a long-term and continuous basis.
Researchers also collect ground-based data on vegetation, soil, hydrologic, and meteorological characteristics at the tower sites.
Visit the project website for more information.
The data can be download only by FLUXNET Parterns
What is the role of the European continent in the global carbon cycle?
To advance our understanding in a multidisciplinary and integrated way, 61 research centres from 17 European countries have joined forces for a 5-year EU-funded research project started in January 2004. CarboEurope-IP addresses basic scientific questions of high political relevance.
The Continental Integration Component relies on the data streams collected by the other Components of the IP, including syntheses of existing data, and
it is expected to provide guidance on how to fill in gaps in the current Observing System and help design optimal observation strategies in the future.
This integration can only be achieved by means of a numerical modelling framework that bridges across scales going from process-studies up to the continental budget. In this framework, diverse approaches of top-down, bottom-up, sectorial, process based and extrapolation techniques have to be employed, compared for consistency and ultimately merged in a most comprehensive way.
In order to produce a best estimate of carbon uptake and its uncertainty, we need to make use of all of the constraints implied by the different data streams, as well as the physiological and ecological constraints embodied in the process-based Terrestrial Ecosystem Models (TEMs). In other words, we need to simultaneously use the observations to constrain the internal parameters of the TEMs, whilst using the TEMs to interpolate the observations to produce useful large-scale estimates of the carbon sink and its causes. This is essentially a Data Assimilation problem, requiring a system similar to those used to initialize and constrain weather forecast models with observations.
Using this approach, we expect to reduce the uncertainty in estimates of the present carbon balance to 10 to 20% or better for Western Europe.
The data can be download only by CarboEurope IP Parterns
Carbon Assimilation and Modelling of the European Land Surfaces (CAMELS) is a project funded by European Commission DG Research - Vth Framework Programme.
CAMELS brochure has been published for the eleventh session of the Conference of Parties of United Framework Convenstion on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Annex I countries are permitted to partially offset their emissions of CO2 by carbon accumulated due to forest management and additional human-induced change in land-use and land management.
The related sources and sinks of CO2 must be reported in a transparent and verifiable manner.
CAMELS will provide key support to EU countries in meeting their obligations under Kyoto, through the following products:
Where are the current carbon sources and sinks located on the land and how do European sinks compare with other large continental areas?
Why do these sources and sinks exist, i.e. what are the relative contributions of CO2 fertilisation, nitrogen deposition, climate variability, land management and land-use change?
How could we make optimal use of existing data sources and the latest models to produce operational estimates of the European land carbon sink?
The CAMELS project is carried out by various partner insititues and is coordinated by Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, UK.
The findings will be communicated to policymakers to inform EU policy within the UNFCCC.
The data can be download only by CAMELS Parterns
