CarboeuropeIP Ecosystem Component Database makes available to the scientific community eddy covariance carbon, water and energy fluxes measured at the european eddy covariance sites. The data are quality controlled and standardized.

Project overview

CarboEurope-IP aims to understand and quantify the present terrestrial carbon balance of Europe and the associated uncertainty at local, regional and continental scale. This means to

• determine the European carbon balance with its spatial and temporal patterns

• understand the controlling processes and mechanisms of carbon cycling in European ecosystems and how these are affected by climate change and variability and human management

• develop an observation system to detect changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and ecosystem carbon stocks related to the European commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.

CarboEurope emerged as a cluster of European projects in 2000. Since then, it consolidated an interdisciplinary research community in the fields of different ecosystems, atmosphere, measurements and modelling. The CarboEurope-IP bundles and expands on these earlier projects and allows for the first time a harmonised and consistent gathering of data and integration of space and time scales.

The project is supported by the European Commission, Directorate-General Research, Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 1.1.6.3 Global Change and Ecosystem, Contract No. GOCE-CT-2003-505572. The budget consists of 16.3 million Euro from the European Commission and about 30 million Euro from national funding.