Monat: Februar 2016

Peer-reviewed Publications

Dagon, Katherine; Schrag, Daniel P. (2016): Exploring the Effects of Solar Radiation Management on Water Cycling in a Coupled Land-Atmosphere Model

Dagon, Katherine; Schrag, Daniel P. (2016): Exploring the Effects of Solar Radiation Management on Water Cycling in a Coupled Land-Atmosphere Model. In J. Climate, pp. 160215105924000. DOI 10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0472.1.

„This paper examines the impact of SRM on the terrestrial hydrologic cycle using the Community Land Model, version 4, coupled to the Community Atmosphere Model, version 4, with reductions in solar radiation relative to simulations with present-day and elevated CO2 concentrations. There are significant global and regional impacts due to vegetation-climate interactions that are not compensated when reductions in total solar irradiance of 1%, 2%, and 3% are imposed on top of a doubling of present-day CO2 concentrations.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Averett, Nancy (2016): Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere. Recarbonizing the Earth’s Soils

Averett, Nancy (2016): Healthy Ground, Healthy Atmosphere. Recarbonizing the Earth’s Soils. In Environmental Health Perspectives 124 (2), pp. 30–35. DOI 10.1289/ehp.124-A30.

„To discuss the potential benefits and challenges of soil carbon sequestration, Le Foll spent two days with Lal at Ohio State’s C-MASC, where the discussion focused on the feasibility of the 4/1000 proposal.16 C-MASC has collaborated with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct research on this theme since early 1990s.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

DeLucia, Evan (2015): How Biofuels Can Cool Our Climate and Strengthen Our Ecosystems

DeLucia, Evan (2015): How Biofuels Can Cool Our Climate and Strengthen Our Ecosystems. In Eos 96 (4), pp. 14–19. DOI 10.1029/2015EO041583.

„Critics of biofuels like ethanol argue they are an unsustainable use of land. But with careful management, next-generation grass-based biofuels can net climate savings and improve their ecosystems.“

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Projects

Project: Cool Planet (Biochar)

„Cool Planet is a technology company that is developing Engineered Biocarbon™ and hydrocarbon products to address three of the world’s largest markets: food, water, and energy, . Currently we are commercializing Cool Terra® an engineered biocarbon product that helps to improve soil health, as well as Cool Fauna™ for use in animal nutrition. Our Cool Terra® engineered biocarbon product sequesters carbon and creates value for the agriculture, water, and livestock industries.“

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Hauck, Judith; et al. (2016): Iron fertilisation and century-scale effects of open ocean dissolution of olivine in a simulated CO2 removal experiment

Hauck, Judith; Köhler, Peter; Wolf-Gladrow, Dieter; Völker, Christoph (2016): Iron fertilisation and century-scale effects of open ocean dissolution of olivine in a simulated CO2 removal experiment. In Environ. Res. Lett. 11 (2), p. 24007–24007. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024007.

„Here we use a marine carbon cycle model to investigate the effects of one CDR technique: the open ocean dissolution of the iron-containing mineral olivine. We analyse the maximum CDR potential of an annual dissolution of 3[nbsp]Pg olivine during the 21st century and focus on the role of the micro-nutrient iron for the biological carbon pump.“

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