Mission: The Atmosphere Component of CarboEurope-IP will establish and operate the Atmospheric Observing System needed to quantify in a top-down approach the average European carbon balance and its regional distribution at a typical spatial scale of 100 km with temporal resolution of one week.

Objectives:
2.1 To provide the high precision, high-frequency, long-term atmospheric concentration measurements needed to invert for magnitude and variability of sources and sinks in Europe with a typical resolution of 100 km every week over best sampled areas.
2.2 To develop innovative methodologies using Carbon Cycle related tracers and isotopes to attribute the CO2 concentration in the European air shed to each of the constituent parts of the fluxes: fossil, oceanic, and terrestrial.
2.3 To provide the data for a continental scale carbon data assimilation system (CDAS).

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For more information, please contact:

Philippe Ciais (Component Leader)
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE)
Joint Research Unit CEA - CNRS 1572
CEA/Saclay
Orme des Merisiers
Bâtiment 701
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
Internet: www.lsce.cnrs-gif.fr