The European plants absorb more carbon dioxide than previously calculated, the new satellite data.
A team of researchers from the University of Bremen and the Max-Planck Institute in Jena has analyzed the CO2 data from two satellite instruments. Partly SCIAMACHY instrument on the European Envisat and also data from the Japanese Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite.
Using a newly developed method of analysis, researchers can demonstrate that the European biosphere takes up 0.6 billion tonnes more carbon dioxide than the example given by the IPCC.
– The existence of a large carbon sink in the Northern Hemisphere is scientifically uncontroversial, says researcher Maxi Lilian Reuter. However, it is not clear where exactly this decrease is.
Dr Michael Buchwitz, who also participated in the study, points out that one of the study not to conclude that Europe can reduce the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions.
– This is a global problem, he points out.
Scientists believe that they now need to pursue research that asks questions that are still unanswered. One hopes then much on data from NASA’s new OCO-2 satellite and yet not uppskickade European CarbonSat.
More about the research in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
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