DKRZ Project

1241: Carbon Dioxide Removal

active project

Principal investigator: Julia Pongratz

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Community project)

Report 1/2022 to 12/2022
Report 1/2023 to 12/2023
Report 1/2024 to 12/2024
Report 1/2025 to 12/2025
Report 1/2026 to 12/2026

Publications

Nützel, T. et al. (incl. Egerer, S., Gupta, S., Moustakis, Y., Pongratz, J.): Recent learnings from representing terrestrial carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in land surface models. Land Surface Modeling Summit II 2026, Frascati. (Invited talk)
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11944., Nützel, T. et al. (incl. Pongratz, J.): Improving the representation of the fate of harvested wood in global and regional carbon budgets, EGU General Assembly 2026, EGU26-11944, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11944. (poster, Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award 2026).
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-14642, Moustakis, Y., (incl. Nützel, T., and Pongratz, J.): Large ESM ensemble reveals complex responses of carbon and climate feedbacks to forestation across emission pathways, EGU General Assembly 2026, EGU26-14642, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-14642, 2026.
Bao, W., et al. (incl. Moustakis, Y., Pongratz, J.). Accounting for socioeconomic constraints projects conservative forestation. (under preparation)
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-12254, Gupta, S., (incl. Moustakis, Y.,and Pongratz, J).: Regional perspective of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal on land-atmosphere coupling and heat extremes, EGU General Assembly 2026, EGU26-12254, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-12254, 2026
Bao, W., et al. (incl. Moustakis, Y., Pongratz, J.). Overlooked Role of Socioeconomic Constraints to Afforestation Efforts and Future Trajectories. The 4th International Conference on Carbon Dioxide Removal. 2026. (Oral Presentation).
Xuan, D., et al., (incl. Moustakis, Y. and Pongratz, J.): Quantifying the impacts of land-use change on Earth system reversibility following temperature overshoot (in preparation)
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2026.101872, Bao, W., Moustakis, Y., Obermeier, W. A., Garschagen, M., Pongratz, J. (2026). Global socioeconomic constraints on afforestation-and reforestation-based carbon dioxide removal. One Earth, 9(10). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2026.101872
Wey, HW., et al. (incl. Moustakis Y., Nützel, T.,): Impacts of Combined Ambitious Marine and Terrestrial Carbon Dioxide Removal on Major Ocean Stressors (accepted in Environmental Research Letters)
Raberg, K., et al., (incl. Moustakis, Y. and Pongratz, J.): Global dampening effect of large-scale afforestation/reforestation on heat extremes (in preparation)
Nützel, T. et al. (incl. Pongratz, J.). Improving the representation of the fate of harvested wood in global and regional carbon budgets. (in preparation)
Nützel, T. et al. (incl. Gupta, S., Moustakis, Y., Egerer, S., Pongratz, J.). Assumptions on feedstock and carbon capture and storage dominate spread of future CDR estimates through BECCS across land surface models. (in preparation)
Nützel, T., et al. (incl. Moustakis, Y., Xu. B., Egerer, S., Pongratz, J.). Substantial across-model differences of simulated future CDR estimates through re-/afforestation. (in preparation)
Moustakis, Y., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J.): Identifying the impacts of reforestation on heat-related mortality (in preparation)
Moustakis, Y., et al. (incl. Nützel, T., and Pongratz, J.): Emissions pathways decouple the carbon and climate effectiveness of forestation (2nd revision round in Nature Climate Change)
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11721, Raberg, K., Pongratz, J., and Moustakis, Y.: Beyond carbon: Does afforestation/reforestation mitigate or trigger future climate extremes?, EGU General Assembly 2026, , EGU26-11721, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu26-11721, 2026.
Bao, W., et al. (incl. Moustakis, Y., Pongratz, J.). Socioeconomic constraints to afforestation and reforestation efforts. (under preparation)
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ae15a8, Boyd, P., Gattuso, JP, Legendre L,Moustakis Y, and Pongratz J. “Effective Carbon Dioxide Removal Requires a One-Earth Approach.” Environmental Research Letters, ahead of print, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae15a8.
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/adc93e, Egerer, S., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J.) (2025). Forestation in CMIP6: wide model spread in tree cover and land carbon uptake. Environ. Res. Lett. 20, 054033.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59982-x, Moustakis, Y., Wey, HW., Nützel, T. et al. No compromise in efficiency from the co-application of a marine and a terrestrial CDR method. Nat Commun 16, 4709 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59982-x
Nützel, T., et al. (incl. Moustakis, Y., Egerer, S., Pongratz, J.). Temporal dynamics of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal. (under preparation)
Raberg, K., Moustakis, Y., Nützel, T., Pongratz, J. The effects of large-scale afforestation/reforestation on climatic extremes (under preparation)
Moustakis, Y., Nutzel T., Wey, HW, Pongratz, J. The effect of large-scale afforestation/reforestation against different emissions scenarios (under preparation)
Wey, HW, Moustakis, Y, Oschlies, A, Guo, H, Nützel, T, Pongratz, J.,Combined marine and terrestrial carbon dioxide removal can mitigate ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation (under preparation)
Bao, W., Moustakis, Y., Obermeier, W., & Pongratz, J. Socio-economic determinants of global tree-planting efforts (under preparation)
Nützel, T., Mathesius, S., Hussain, A., Krause, J., Moustakis, Y., Egerer, S., et al. Temporal dynamics of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal. (under preparation)
Wey, Hao-Wei, Moustakis, Yiannis, Nützel, Tobias, et al. Similar carbon cycle feedback between forestation and ocean alkalinity enhancement and among CMIP6 models (under preparation)
Philip W Boyd, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Louis Legendre, Yiannis Moustakis, Julia Pongratz, Effective Carbon Dioxide Removal requires a One-Earth approach (under preparation)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11193881, Nützel, T. (2024). Calculation of parameter values based on observations for the herbaceous biomass plantation PFT representing Miscanthus in JSBACH3.2 (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.
Moustakis, Y., Wey, H.-W., Nützel, T., Oschlies, A., & Pongratz, J. Linear carbon cycle responses to scaling up and combining land- and ocean-based carbon dioxide removal methods. (under preparation)
Egerer, S., David M. Lawrence, Peter J. Lawrence, Arthur Argles, Vivek Arora, Alina L. Barbu, Ian N. Harman, Paul A. Miller, Thomas Raddatz, Nicolas Vuichard, David Warlind, Tilo Ziehn, Julia Pongratz: Forestation in CMIP6: Wide model spread in tree cover and land carbon uptake (under preparation)
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-1451, Egerer, S., Falk, S., Mayer, D., Nützel, T., Obermeier, W., and Pongratz, J.: How to measure the efficiency of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal methods, EGUsphere [preprint]
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52508-x, Moustakis, Y., Nützel, T., Wey, H.-W., Bao, W., & Pongratz, J. (2024). Temperature overshoot responses to ambitious forestation in an Earth System Model. Nature Communications, 15(1), 8235.
DOI: Oral presentation at WCRP, World Climate Research Program, Open Science Conference 2023, Kigali, Rwanda: Y. Moustakis, HW. Wey, T. Nützel, A. Oschlies, J. Pongratz, "Earth System impacts of the deployment of large-scale land- and ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal portfolios?"
DOI: Poster presentation at EGU, EGU 2023, Vienna Austria: Egerer, S., Falk, S., Mayer, D., Nützel, T., Obermaier, W.A., Pongratz, J.: How to measure the effectiveness of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal methods?
DOI: submitted in Nature Climate Change, Y. Moustakis, T. Nützel, HW. Wey, J. Pongratz, "Ambitious forestation can mitigate temperature overshoot", (2023)
DOI: Poster presentation at SCSS 2023, Swiss Climate Summer School 2023, Ascona, Switzerland: Nützel, T., Egerer, S., Mathesius, S., Krause, J., Bampoh, D., Falk, S., Obermeier, W., Gerten, D., Pongratz, J., "Temporal dynamics of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal"
DOI: Oral presentation at DPG spring meeting, DPG Frühjahrstagung in Dresden, Deutschland: S. Falk for the STEPSEC team, "STEPSEC - Update und erste Ergebnisse"
DOI: in prep for na, Egerer, S., Falk, S., Mayer, D., Nützel, T., Obermaier, W.A., Pongratz, J.: How to measure the effectiveness of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal methods?