U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) collaborative project: MIT component
Focus Areas:
Earth Systems, Policy Scenarios, Climate Policy
Description:

The case for real-time, high-frequency measurement networks is very strong, and AGAGE observations and their interpretation are recognized widely for their importance to ozone depletion and climate change studies—and to verification issues arising from the Montreal Protocol (ozone) and Paris...
The role of boreal wildfires in the global carbon budget: A process-based analysis using satellite-derived fire burn severity data
Focus Areas:
Earth Systems, Regional Analysis
Description:

Atmospheric transport and inversion modeling will be used to assess the role of boreal forests affected by wildfires in the regional carbon budget and global atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Orbiting Carbon Observatory CO2 data and ecosystem model simulated carbon fluxes...
Using a data-constrained global-ocean ecology and biogeochemistry model to study the role of ocean circulation and the biological pump in driving ocean carbon cycle variability
Focus Areas:
Earth Systems, Natural Ecosystems
Description:

This project will apply the Darwin ocean ecology model and ECCO-MITgcm estimates of ocean circulation to study the relationship between upper ocean community production, particulate organic carbon export fluxes, interior ocean remineralization, and biological carbon stores, and compare...