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Dr Alessandro Anav University of Exeter |
Research Project: Terrestrial ecosystem model evaluation (“TERREMIP”)Supervisor: Prof Pierre Friedlingstein (University of Exeter) T3.1 is a terrestrial ecosystem model evaluation project known as “TERREMIP”. It will be a highly cross-cutting activity drawing on data and expertise from WP1, other WP3 tasks, and will utilise a common methodology developed in close collaboration with T2.1 (“MAREMIP”). Model evaluation will target the terrestrial components of models used by network partners and will exploit data from coupled GCM simulations submitted to the IPCC AR5 multi-model database. |
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Dr Daniela Dalmonech Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry |
Research Project: Benchmarking datasets for the evaluation of ecosystem modelsSupervisor: Dr Sönke Zaehle (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry) To develop a comprehensive series of benchmarks and associated methodologies for the systematic and quantitative evaluation of ESMs, with an emphasis on current regional and global biogeochemical cycles and their future behaviours. This task will be undertaken in close collaboration with the model comparison tasks T2.1 (‘MAREMIP’) and T3.1 (‘TERREMIP’). Foci will be on the compilation and harmonisation of existing in situ measurements, inventories, atmospheric observations, and remote sensing datasets, and on developing evaluation techniques that move beyond simply testing models to the rigorous provision of constraints on future projections. |
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Dr Aideen Foley University of Cambridge |
Research Project: Quantifying uncertainty in Earth system feedbacks to 2200Supervisor: Dr Andrew Friend (University of Cambridge) T5.1 will draw on all other network projects to develop and analyse an integrated framework for Earth system modelling, including socio-economic feedbacks. The SIMEARTH model platform will be used to develop a system of linkages and traceability across the hierarchy of GCII ESM components. SIMEARTH will be used to assess the consequences of different levels of complexity for model outcomes related to interactions between global biogeochemistry and climate. |
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Dr Mehera Kidston LSCE |
Research Project: Marine ecosystem model evaluation (“MAREMIP”)Supervisor: Dr Laurent Bopp (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique) T2.1 is a marine ecosystem model evaluation project known as “MAREMIP”. It will be a highly cross-cutting activity drawing on data and expertise from WP1, model development from across WP2, and jointly derived methodology from WP3 (“TERREMIP”). The evaluation will build on previous model simulations and intercomparison projects such as OCMIP, C4MIP, FP6-Euroceans, and FP6-CARBOOCEAN, but also make use of the data available from coupled GCM simulations submitted to the IPCC AR5 multi-model database. The focus will be on developing evaluation techniques to move beyond simply evaluating models towards constraints on future projections. |
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Dr Frans-Jan Parmentier Lund University |
Research Project: Ocean-land interactions and teleconnections at high latitudesSupervisor: Prof Torben Christensen (Lund University) T4.1 will include a detailed survey of evidence for connections between marine climate and terrestrial processes in the Arctic and their implications for the atmosphere. In particular, evidence for the overall effects of changes in sea ice extent on the combined marine- terrestrial system will be systematically investigated. |
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Dr Aurélien Quiquet University of Cambridge |
Research Project: Modelling Palaeo-Methane ConcentrationsSupervisor: Dr Andrew Friend (University of Cambridge) Using state-of-the-art surface and atmospheric chemistry models to investigate the relative importance of source and sinks of atmospheric methane in a changing climate perspective. Ice core records will be used as a constraint for the models and the Last Interglacial period (130’000 -116’000) will be considered as a case of study. |
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Dr Guillaume Villain PIK, Potsdam |
Research Project: Land use, biofuels, and global biogeochemistrySupervisor: Dr Georg Feulner (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) T5.6 will investigate the impacts on the coupled Earth system of the growing pressure for land from the production of food crops and biofuels, in particular the biogeochemical responses and their climatic consequences. A parameterisation of biofuel crops will be developed for the LPJmL and MAgPIE models. |
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Early-Stage Researchers |
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Callum Berridge VUA |
Research Project: Mid-latitude carbon-water couplingSupervisor: Prof Han Dolman (Vrije Universiteit) Use data analysis and well-defined coupled simulations to improve future projections of C cycle responses to mid-latitude droughts. |
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Ioannis Bistinas ISA Lisbon |
Research Project: Global interactions of fire with plant types, land use, and climate changeSupervisor: Prof José Pereira (Instituto Superior de Agronomia) Address the coupled performance of global fire models using various remotely-sensed spatio-temporal patterns of fire incidence. Plant types considered particularly relevant for fire will be carefully parameterised in the JULES and HYBRID global vegetation models, and the influence of land use and climate change on fire activity will be assessed. |
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Chao-Ting Chang CREAF |
Research Project: Ecosystem respiration and forest carbon balanceSupervisor: Dr Santi Sabaté (Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplications Forestals) Utilise field measurements along an environmental gradient and subsequent model development to analyse respiration and assimilation responses to drought. |
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Katherine Crichton LGGE |
Research Project: Quantifying carbon-climate-ocean feedbacks using EMICs and ice core dataSupervisor: Dr Jérôme Chappellaz (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Using EMICs such as CLIMBER-carbon, together with constraints from ice core measurements and simpler box models, to better understand carbon-climate-ocean feedbacks on centennial-millennial timescales. |
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Altug Ekici Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry |
Research Project: Land surface-atmosphere feedback mechanisms in high-latitude permafrost areasSupervisor: Dr Christian Beer (Stockholm University) Further extend the JSBACH terrestrial biosphere model to include a representation of the vertical distribution of soil organic C. This model will then be used to analyse potential future soil C and vegetation dynamics in response to environmental change in the Arctic, with an emphasis on implications for the radiative balance of the atmosphere and related feedback mechanisms. |
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László Hunor Hajdu University of Cambridge |
Research Project: Tropical deforestation, atmospheric convection, clouds, and carbon fluxesSupervisor: Dr Andrew Friend (University of Cambridge) Build on work to couple the cloud-resolving model ATHAM, with the terrestrial ecosystem model HYBRID, to better understand the responses of the coupled tropical forest-atmosphere system to deforestation. High resolution simulations will investigate the coupled dynamics of convective, cloud, hydrological, radiative, C cycle, and ecological processes. |
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Arnaud Héroult Lund University |
Research Project: Regional variations in atmospheric trace gas sources at high latitudesSupervisor: Prof Torben Christensen (Lund University) Undertake measurements of year-round seasonal dynamics of CH4 emissions at a range of appropriate sites. |
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Rozenn Keribin University of Cambridge |
Research Project: Diversity, adaptability, and terrestrial ecosystem reslienceSupervisor: Dr Andrew Friend (University of Cambridge) Extend an individual-based model of vegetation dynamics to treat the natural diversity and adaptability of physiology within individuals, species, and communities. The model will be carefully tested against key observations and consequences for the resilience of ecosystems in different regions and under different scenarios of climate and CO2 change will be assessed. |
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Jana Kolassa Estellus SAS |
Research Project: Constraints on surface temperature and terrestrial hydrology using remote sensingSupervisor: Dr Filipe Aires (Estellus) Develop and apply a series of new remotely sensed datasets for the evaluation and parameterisation of ESMs, with an emphasis on surface temperature and hydrology. |
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Peter Landschützer University of East Anglia |
Research Project: The changing uptake and transport of carbon in the Atlantic OceanSupervisors: Dr Dorothee Bakker (University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences), Dr Ute Schuster (University of Exeter) Undertake measurements of inorganic C and transient tracers along five deep hydrographic sections in the Atlantic Ocean, and use them to estimate air-sea C exchange over the wider Atlantic region with spatial scaling using remote sensing data. |
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Charlotte Laufkötter ETH Zürich |
Research Project: Impacts of future climate change on marine phytoplanktonSupervisor: Prof Nicolas Gruber (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) Improve our ability to simulate the impacts of future climate change on marine phytoplankton production and assemblages. It will use two complementary approaches: (i) a simple model of production based on chlorophyll will be combined with statistical relationships to determine the relative contribution of each phytoplankton functional group; and (ii) a standard prognostic ecosystem model derived from the ocean component of the NCAR-CCSM will be employed. |
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Gerardo López Saldaña ISA Lisbon |
Research Project: A long-term burned area map databaseSupervisor: Prof José Pereira (Instituto Superior de Agronomia) Combine NOAA/AVHRR LTDR imagery and machine learning techniques to develop a long-term (1981-2008) global burnt area map database. |
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Alex Marti Donati University of Exeter |
Research Project: Forest management and global biogeochemistrySupervisor: Prof Peter Cox (University of Exeter) Develop forest management algorithms for global forested regions within the well-established JULES global ecosystem model. Available data will be synthesised and the consequences of forest management and interactions with other factors such as climate changes will be investigated. |
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Maria Martin Calvo Imperial College London |
Research Project: Evaluation of vegetation and fire simulations using palaeodataSupervisor: Prof Colin Prentice (Imperial College London) Develop the tools necessary to use recent advances in global reconstructions of historical vegetation patterns and fire regimes, including indicators of biomass burning emerging from the ice core record, to evaluate ESMs. |
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Jorge Martinez-Rey LSCE |
Research Project: Modelling the nitrogen cycle in the oceanSupervisor: Dr Laurent Bopp (Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique) Improve the representation of the marine N cycle in the PISCES ocean biogeochemical model. In particular, implementing a representation of the variability in phytoplankton N to C ratios and investigating how this may affect the response of air-sea C fluxes to climate change. My research is focused on the current understanding of the marine N-cycle. The complexity of the N-cycle and its links with those of carbon and oxygen portray a beautiful yet challenging topic, from process parameterizations and OGCBMs to isotopic signatures and palaeorecords. Of particular interest in my work are the effects of future marine stressors such as global warming, ocean deoxygenation and ocean acidification on the marine N-cycle in the next hundred years. The core of my work has been an improved representation of N-cycle processes in global ocean biogeochemical models, mostly on the in-house PISCES model at IPSL in France but also analysing the model output of the CMIP5 ensemble. The large uncertainties on the N-cycle demand not only to explore future projections on short time scales but also to identify the strengths and weaknesses of current OGCBMs in estimating critical processes such as N2O production, N2-fixation and nitrification under higher CO2 concentrations than today. |
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Yanjiao Mi VUA |
Research Project: Stability and resilience of permafrost carbonSupervisor: Dr. J. (Ko) van Huissteden (Vrije Universiteit) Improve wetland coupled hydrology-carbon cycle models to better account for the effects of changing drainage basin hydrology and permafrost degradation. Predicted annual variation in CH4 emissions will be compared with top-down estimates of high latitude wetland fluxes derived from satellite observations and inverse model simulations. |
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Catherine Morfopoulos Imperial College London |
Research Project: BVOC emissions, climate change, and plant physiologySupervisor: Prof Colin Prentice (Imperial College London) Utilise multiple data sources to analyse species-level variation in BVOC emissions from plants. Representations of BVOCs will be incorporated into coupled ESMs and possible atmospheric feedbacks investigated in collaboration with WP5. |
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Colleen O’Brien ETH Zürich |
Research Project: Ocean phytoplankton functional group distribution in data and modelsSupervisor: Prof Nicolas Gruber (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) A model-data comparison project specifically focussing on phytoplankton dynamics. It will exploit the recently compiled GloPAD phytoplankton database, and use it in conjunction with T2.1 to evaluate ocean model simulations. Phytoplankton assemblages will be derived from the model/data database and the analysis will investigate how oceanographic conditions determine variability and structure in marine ecosystems. |
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Norbert Pirk Lund University |
Research Project: Greenhouse gas emission mechanisms from high-latitude Permafrost regionsSupervisor: Prof Torben Christensen (Lund University) Undertake measurements of year-round seasonal dynamics of CH4 emissions at a range of appropriate sites. |
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Miral Shah LGGE |
Research Project: Constraints using carbon isotopes in ice coresSupervisor: Dr Jérôme Chappellaz (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Reconstruct the evolution of the CO2 mixing ratio of atmospheric CO2 recorded in Antarctic ice cores in order to better quantify the linkages between climate and the global C cycle. The focus will be on time periods when the climate-carbon system experienced large changes, such as the transitions from interglacial to glacial conditions. |
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Dominik Sperlich CREAF |
Research Project: Drought impacts on tree physiologySupervisor: Dr Santi Sabaté (Centre de Recerca Ecologica i Aplications Forestals) Use field measurements and modelling to characterise differences between Mediterranean vegetation types with respect to drought responses. |
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Beate Stawiarski University of East Anglia |
Research Project: Picophytoplankton physiology and the microbial loopSupervisor: Dr Erik Buitenhuis (University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences) Specific focus on the role of picophytoplankton and the microbial loop in the marine C cycle. Laboratory work (phytoplankton cultures), data synthesis, and modelling will be used to investigate how changes in picophytoplankton and the microbial loop could lead to large changes in future atmospheric CO2 through their controls on air-sea exchange. |
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Matteo Willeit PIK, Potsdam |
Research Project: Feedback analysis and evaluation using the CLIMBER modelSupervisor: Dr Andrey Ganopolski (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) Use the CLIMBER2 EMIC to investigate climate-vegetation interactions and feedbacks at global and continental scales, and CLIMBER3 to study climate-biosphere feedbacks due to large-scale land use change (e.g. expanded biofuel production). |
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Scientists In Charge |
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Dr Filipe Aires Estellus SA |
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Dr Laurent Bopp Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique |
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Dr Erik Buitenhuis University of East Anglia |
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Dr Jérôme Chappellaz Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
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Prof Torben Christensen University of Cambridge |
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Prof Peter Cox University of Exeter |
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Prof Han Dolman Vrije Universiteit |
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Dr Georg Feulner PIK, Potsdam |
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Prof Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter |
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Dr Andrew Friend University of Cambridge |
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Prof Nicolas Gruber ETH Zürich |
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Prof José Pereira Instituto Superior de Agronomia |
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Prof Colin Prentice Imperial College London |
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Dr Drew Purves Microsoft Research Limited |
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Dr Santi Sabaté CREAF |
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Dr Ute Schuster University of Exeter |
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Dr Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry |
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External Science Advisor |
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Dr Victor Brovkin Stockholm University |
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Associated Scientists |
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Dr Christian Beer Stockholm University |
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Prof Wolfgang Cramer PIK, Potsdam |
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Prof Sandy Harrision University of Reading |
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Dr Ko van Huissteden Vrije Universiteit |
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Dr Meike Vogt ETH Zürich |