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Work and plans at FMI. “ CarbonTracker team” at FMI Climate modelling group PhD Leif Backman Greenhouse gas group PhD Tuula Aalto PhD student, Aki Koyama Funded projects Nordic Centre of Excellence (Nordic Ministry Council)
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Work and plans at FMI • “CarbonTracker team” at FMI • Climate modelling group • PhD Leif Backman • Greenhouse gas group • PhD Tuula Aalto • PhD student, Aki Koyama • Funded projects • Nordic Centre of Excellence (Nordic Ministry Council) • DEFROST - Interaction between climate change and the cryosphere (www.ncoe-defrost.org/home) • Nessling Foundation • CO2 and methane balances of terrestrial ecosystems restrained by atmospheric concentration observations • Funding applications • Academy of Finland (general call, application submitted in September) • Top-down estimates of methane surface fluxes • Regional boreal carbon balances and climate in the past and future decades • GOSAT validation • Sodankylä FTS & CarbonTracker
Work and plans at FMI • CT methane version • Possibility to get the NOAA methane version (Lori Bruhweiler) • Prior fields • Terrestrial biosphere • Renato Spahni, LPJ model data, • University of Helsinki, methane emission model implemented to the JSBACH land surface component of the MPI Earth System Model • Biomass burning • In house Fire Assimilation System, methane emission fluxes estimated using PM and CO emissions as proxies • Oceans • Based on published results from Atlantic and Pacific transect cruises • Anthropogenic • Inventory based (EDGAR, UNFCCC) • Observations • NOAA/ESRL cooperative sampling network + European continuous data • TCCON • Satellite data, GOSAT