Dr Emanuel Gloor
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
My research interest is to detect and understand current large-scale changes of land and ocean systems due to a changing climate and human activity. One of the tools I am using are 3D fluid dynamic models of ocean and atmosphere transport and chemistry, as well as land vegetation models to interpret concentration data of CO2 and species related to the carbon cycle like CO and CH4 in terms of sources and sinks. Besides analysis of existing data I am also interested in developing new measurement infrastructure and new analysis methods like new atmospheric sampling programs (Siberia) or satellite methods (e.g. CO2 from space) to improve our ability to diagnose changes of carbon cycling and underlying system changes.
CURRENT PROJECTS
AMAZONICA NERC
consortium grant
Objectives (i) To quantify the carbon balance of the Amazon Basin and its associated contribution to global atmospheric change. (ii) To apportion and understand the processes contributing to the net Basin-wide flux observed. (iii) To allow improved assessments of the likely role of the Amazon Basin in contributing and/or alleviating future planetary change.
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
- Gloor M., N. Gruber, J. L. Sarmiento, C. Sabine, D. Feely and C. Rödenbeck (2003). A first estimate of present and preindustrial air-sea CO2 flux patterns based on ocean interior carbon measurements and models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, No. 1 10.1029/2002GL015594 .
- Gloor, M., E. Dlugokencky, C. Brenninkmeijer, L. Horowitz, D. F. Hurst, G. Dutton, C. Crevoisier, T. Machida, and P. Tans (2007), Three-dimensional SF6 data and tropospheric transport simulations: Signals, modeling accuracy, and implications for inverse modeling, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D15112, doi:10.1029/2006JD007973.
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