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Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets

Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases

  • 1st Edition - May 5, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Benjamin Poulter, Joseph Canadell, Daniel Hayes, Rona Thompson
  • Language: English

Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets: Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases provides a synthesis of greenhouse gas budgeting activities across th… Read more

Description

Balancing Greenhouse Gas Budgets: Accounting for Natural and Anthropogenic Flows of CO2 and other Trace Gases provides a synthesis of greenhouse gas budgeting activities across the world. Organized in four sections, including background, methods, case studies and opportunities, it is an interdisciplinary book covering both science and policy. All environments are covered, from terrestrial to ocean, along with atmospheric processes using models, inventories and observations to give a complete overview of greenhouse gas accounting. Perspectives presented give readers the tools necessary to understand budget activities, think critically, and use the framework to carry out initiatives.

Key features

  • Written by a combination of experts across career stages, presenting an integrated perspective for graduate students and professionals alike
  • Includes sections authored by those involved in both early and later IPCC assessments
  • Provides an interdisciplinary resource that spans many topics and methodologies in oceanic, land and atmospheric processes

Readership

Scientists from academic and research institutions working on greenhouse gas budgeting at a national, sub-national or regional scale; scientists and policy-makers associated with NGO and governmental activities related to greenhouse gas

Table of contents

Foreword
Corinne Le Quéré
Preface
Benjamin Poulter, Josep G. Canadell, Daniel J. Hayes, and Rona Thompson

I. Background

1. Balancing Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks: from global budgets to climate policies
Josep G. Canadell, Benjamin Poulter, Daniel J. Hayes, and Rona Thompson

II. Methods

2. CO2 emissions from energy systems and industrial processes: Inventories from data- and proxy-driven approaches
Dustin Roten, Gregg Marland, Rostylav Bun, Monica Crippa, Dennis Gilfillan, Matthew W Jones, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Eric Marland, and Robbie Andrew

3. Bottom-up approaches for estimating terrestrial GHG budgets: Bookkeeping, process-based modeling, and data-driven methods
Benjamin Poulter, Ana Bastos, Josep G. Canadell, Philippe Ciais, Deborah Huntzinger, Richard A. Houghton, Werner Kurz, A.M. Roxana Petrescu, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch, and Sebastiaan Luyssaert

4. Top-Down Approaches
Rona Thompson, Frédéric Chevallier, Shamil Maksyutov, Prabir Patra, and Kevin Bowman

III. Case Studies

5. Arctic Ecosystems
Eugénie S.Euskirchen, Lori M. Bruhwiler, Róisín Commane, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Christina Schädel, Edward A.G. Schuur, and Jennifer Watts

6. Boreal Forests
Daniel J.Hayes, David E. Butman, Grant M.Domke, Joshua B.Fisher, Christopher S. R. Neigh, Lisa R. Welp

7. Temperate forests and grasslands
Masayuki Kondo, Richard Birdsey, Thomas A.M. Pugh, Ronny Lauerwald, Peter A. Raymond, Shuli Niu and Kim Naudts

8. Tropical Ecosystem Greenhouse Gas Accounting
Jean Ometto and Luiz Aragão

9. Semi-arid Ecosystems
Ana Bastos, Victoria Naipal, Anders Ahlström, Natasha MacBean, William Kolby Smith, and Ben Poulter

10. Urban Environments and Trans-boundary Linkages
Kangkang Tong and Anu Ramaswami

11. Ocean systems
Peter Landschützer, Lydia Keppler, and Tatiana Ilyina

12. Greenhouse gas balances in coastal ecosystems: Current challenges in "blue carbon" estimation and significance to national greenhouse gas inventories
Lisamarie Windham-Myers, James Holmquist, Kevin Kroeger, and Tiffany Troxler

13. Agricultural Systems
Stephen M. Ogle, Pete Smith, Francesco N. Tubiello, Shawn Archibeque, Miguel Taboada, Donovan Campbell, and Cynthia Nevison

IV. Forward Looking

14. Applications of top-down methods to anthropogenic GHG emission estimation
Shamil Maksyutov and Prabir Patra

15. Earth System Perspective
Lesley Ott and Abhishek Chatterjee

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 5, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Benjamin Poulter

Dr Ben Poulter is a Research Scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He is an expert in using remote sensing and dynamic global vegetation models to quantify and monitor terrestrial ecosystem carbon stocks and the fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane. He has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports (AR5 and AR6), the United States State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2), and has published numerous manuscripts on forest and wetland dynamics in response to natural disturbances, land-use change, changing climate and rising atmospheric CO2.
Affiliations and expertise
Biospheric Sciences Lab, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, University of Maryland College Park

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Joseph Canadell

Dr Josep G. Canadell is the Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project and a chief research scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia. His work focuses on collaborative and integrative research to study the human perturbation of the carbon cycle and the global budgets of carbon, methane and nitrous oxide. Additional interest is on assessing the size and vulnerability of earth’s carbon pools and pathways to decarbonization. He has contributed to the last three Assessment Reports of the IPCC and publishes in the field of global ecology and earth system sciences.
Affiliations and expertise
Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project and Senior Principal Research Scientist CSIRO

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Daniel Hayes

Dr Dan Hayes is Associate Professor in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine. He teaches, does research and performs outreach on the use of remote sensing for forest inventory and ecosystem studies. He studies the role of climate change and disturbance in the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems, with a focus on Arctic and Boreal regions. He has contributed to various regional, continental and global carbon budget modeling and synthesis efforts and publishes on the methods and results of multi-disciplinary, ecosystem-scale scientific investigations.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Forest Resources, University of Maine

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Rona Thompson

Dr Rona Thompson is a senior research scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Her research focuses on the modelling of atmospheric transport and composition, especially greenhouse gases, and improving knowledge of the sources and sinks of various atmospheric species using statistical optimization methods. She was a contributing author to the last two Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and has published numerous articles on the emissions and atmospheric transport of greenhouse gases.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, CICERO

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