Monat: März 2022

Peer-reviewed Publications

Nature – An et al. (2022): Intensity changes of Indian Ocean dipole mode in a carbon dioxide removal scenario

Soon-Il An, Hyo-Jin Park, Soong-Ki Kim, Jongsoo Shin, Sang-Wook Yeh & Jong-Seong Kug IN: npj Clim Atmos Sci 5, 20 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038

The Indian Ocean Dipole/Zonal mode (IOD) is an interannual phenomenon over the tropical Indian Ocean, causing a pronounced impact worldwide. Here, the authors investigate the mechanism of the change in IOD characteristics in a CO2 removal simulation for an earth system model (ESM). As the CO2 concentration increases, the intensity of IOD tends to increase, but at high CO2 concentrations, further increases decrease the IOD intensity.

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Jobs

Postdoctoral scholar in climate mitigation and biomass-based carbon dioxide removal solutions

Deadline: No Deadline

Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Global Ecology (DGE) at Stanford is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow interested in food-energy-water systems and climate mitigation via biomass-based carbon dioxide removal solutions. Research will be highly data-driven, through quantitative research and spatial model development. The start date for the position is flexible. 

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Media

UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management to Demonstrate Carbon Removal Technologies on AltaSea Campus at Port of Los Angeles

on Business Wire

AltaSea and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management (ICM) have announced an agreement to demonstrate carbon removal technologies on the 35-acre AltaSea campus at the Port of Los Angeles later this year. ICM will showcase its pioneering SeaChange technology that leverages the oceans to effect carbon removal.

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Media

The case for direct air capture

by Craig Bettenhausen on Chemical & Engineering News

„We have technology to strip CO2 out of ambient air, but is it a good way to fight climate change? Direct air capture (DAC) sounds too good to be true. Humanity is threatened by an excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, so build a giant DAC machine that can remove it.“

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Jobs

Program Manager (m/f/d) for Carbon Dioxide Removal project

Deadline: 1 Apr 2022

The Chair of Geography and Land Use Systems, Faculty of Geosciences (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), invites applications for a Program Manager (full-time, 2.5 years, TV-L E14). The chair carries out fundamental and applied research on the human impact on climate via land use and leads the synthesis, transfer and coordination project for the BMBF funding line on Carbon Dioxide Removal.

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Peer-reviewed Publications

Nature – Regnier et al. (2022): The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle

Pierre Regnier, Laure Resplandy, Raymond G. Najjar, Philippe Ciais IN: Nature 603, 401–410 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04339-9

„Carbon storage by the ocean and by the land is usually quantified separately, and does not fully take into account the land-to-ocean transport of carbon through inland waters, estuaries, tidal wetlands and continental shelf waters—the ‘land-to-ocean aquatic continuum’ (LOAC). Using a mass-balance approach, the authors find that the pre-industrial uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by terrestrial ecosystems transferred to the ocean and outgassed back to the atmosphere amounts to 0.65 ± 0.30 petagrams of carbon per year (±2 sigma).“

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