GEO 446LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Carbon Sink, Eddy Covariance, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
15 Mar 2019
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For example, you could propose something like this: Motivation: drought frequency is expected to increase over the coming century in many places. Hypothesis: drought conditions reduce plant biodiversity following disturbance. Methods: analyze historical data about plant community composition following disturbance during drought and non-drought conditions. Global carbon storage in biomass (above and belowground) Positive covariance of vertical wind speed and co2 content at night. Confederation of regional networks in north, central and south america, europe, asia, africa, and australia, in a global network, called fluxnet. This global network includes more than 800 active and historic flux measurement sites, dispersed across most of the world"s climate space and representative biomes. Seasonal co2 variability (from mona loa observatory, hawaii) Human influence on the carbon cycle -- anthropogenic co2. Primary natural processes that remove co2 from the atmosphere. Global carbon cycle showing the typical turnover time scales through the major reservoirs.
