Enhanced quantification and understanding of natural and anthropogenic methane emissions and sinks
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Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
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Summary
The challenge of this topic is to further quantify and understand natural and anthropogenic methane emissions based on carefully selected European land sites and European sea sites with unprecedented resolution in space and time that should leverage the latest advances in observations from satellite, ground-based, and airborne, together with advances in reconciling inverse and bottom-up modelling approaches.
This activity is expected to foster and enhance collaboration between the modelling and observing (satellite, ground-based, airborne) communities and advance towards an enhanced global and regional assessment of the methane sources and sinks from land and the ocean, their short and long-term evolution as well as the related natural and anthropogenic processes and impacts on atmospheric chemistry and dynamics and on Earth radiation budgets.
Detailed Call Description
The proposal will address this challenge through:
- Deploying large coordinated in situ, ground-based and airborne observation monitoring campaigns over different Earth’s ecosystems (terrestrial, terrestrial-aquatic continuum, and marine sub-seafloor) and key anthropogenic sources (e.g. agriculture, waste, mining, oil and gas industry) with comparable and scalable measurement approaches.
- Running these campaigns during an extended period of time and planning them beyond the duration of the projects, building on existing measurement infrastructures and initiatives, in order to support the validation of satellite products, but as well to support the development of new and enhancement of existing models and data assimilation techniques.
- Evaluating temporal change in methane release over centuries at selected, relevant sites from existing long-time series.
- Advancing towards an integrated methane observing system (on “facility scale”) that capitalises on the latest advances in observations from satellite, in situ, ground-based remote sensing and airborne instruments as well as results from citizen observations.
- Advancing the capacity of models and data assimilation techniques, related to methane emissions through specifically exploiting novel medium and high-resolution satellite data (e.g. GHGSat, PRISMA, Sentinel-2, Landsat-8/9, Worldview-3).
- Delivering inverse modelling to separate methane sources and sinks and to attribute inverse modelling estimated fluxes to specific processes building on sufficient spatial resolution to identify the origin, for instance, of large local emissions.
- Advancing towards an enhanced spatially and temporary high-resolution global and regional assessment of the methane sources and sinks and its dynamics over time, the related natural and anthropogenic processes, and impacts on climate.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: €15.00 million
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries are strongly encouraged to publish results data in open access repositories and/or as annexes to publications.
If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used).
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Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Mr Christakis Theocharous
Scientific Officer A’
Telephone: +357 22 205 029
Email: ctheocharous@research.org.cy
Mr George Christou
Scientific Officer
Telephone: +357 22 205 030
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy