1170: Atmospheric greenhouse gases and the Carbon cycle (AtmoC)

Principal investigator: Andre Butz

Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Umweltphysik (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 7/2021 to 6/2022
Report 7/2022 to 6/2023
Report 7/2023 to 6/2024
Report 7/2024 to 6/2025

Publications

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-369, Glauch, T., Marshall, J., Gerbig, C., Botía, S., Gałkowski, M., Vardag, S. N., and Butz, A.: pyVPRM: A next-generation Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model for the post-MODIS era, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3692, 2025.
• DOI: 10.5194/bg-22-555-2025, Metz, E.-M., Vardag, S. N., Basu, S., Jung, M., and Butz, A.: Seasonal and interannual variability in CO2 fluxes in southern Africa seen by GOSAT, Biogeosciences, 22, 555–584, 2025.
• DOI: 10.5194/gmd-17-1885-2024, Vardag, S. N. and Maiwald, R.: Optimising urban measurement networks for CO2 flux estimation: a high-resolution observing system simulation experiment using GRAMM/GRAL, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 1885–1902, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1885-2024, 2024.
• DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107207, May, M., Wald, S., Suter, I., Brunner, D., Vardag, S.N.: Evaluation of the GRAMM/GRAL model for high-resolution wind fields in Heidelberg, Germany, Atmospheric Research, 2024
• DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-5859-2022, Luther, A., Kostinek, J., Kleinschek, R., Defratyka, S., Stanisavljević, M., Forstmaier, A., Dandocsi, A., Scheidweiler, L., Dubravica, D., Wildmann, N., Hase, F., Frey, M. M., Chen, J., Dietrich, F., Nȩcki, J., Swolkień, J., Knote , C., Vardag, S. N., Roiger, A., and Butz, A.: Observational constraints on methane emissions from Polish coal mines using a ground-based remote sensing network, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 5859–5876, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5859-2022, 2022.
• DOI: 10.1126/science.add7833, Metz, E.-M., Vardag, S. N., Basu, S., Jung, M., Ahrens, B., El-Madany, T., Sitch, S., Arora, V. K., Briggs, P. R., Friedlingstein, P., Goll, D. S., Jain, A. K., Kato, E., Lombardozzi, D., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Poulter, B., Séférian, R., Tian, H., Wiltshire, A., Yuan, W., Yue, X., Zaehle, S., Deutscher, N. M., Griffith, D. W. T., and Butz, A.: Soil respiration-driven CO2 pulses dominate Australia’s flux variability, Science, 379, 1332–1335, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add7833, 2023.
• DOI: 10.22541/essoar.167591054.45628540/v1, Pilz,L. Galkowski, M., Fallmann, J., Chen.F., Butz, A., Vardag, S.N.: Optimizing High-Resolution Simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model for the German Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region. Authorea. February 09, 2023