Haus Rissen, Hamburg, Germany 
21-22 November 2016

Read the meeting report: Carbon Feedbacks in the Climate System: Report from the Kick-off Workshop

WCRP's Joint Scientific Committee recently approved the new Grand Challenge ‘Carbon Feedbacks in the Climate System’. This Grand Challenge aims at advancing our understanding of how biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks control carbon dioxide concentrations and impact on the climate system, with notable progress within a 5-10 year time frame. Therefore, very specific questions will be addressed such as: What is the role of the Southern Ocean in controlling the strength and variations of the ocean carbon sink? How do processes of CO₂ fertilization and nutrient limitation affect the efficiency of the land carbon sink?

As a first step a kick-off meeting was held in Hamburg, Germany. The objective of the meeting was to engage the community by bringing the best minds to the table. During the meeting the research initiatives (suggested in the White Paper) were updated and refined. In addition, a roadmap was designed of how this Grand Challenge will progress in the next years. The workshop had both plenary discussions and specific discussions in break out groups on the topics of the research initiatives. One outcome will be to update the current White Paper, and possibly also to summarise the key research challenges in a review paper.

List of participants: click here to download

Meeting agenda: click here to download

Presentations:

Co-organisers:
Prof. Pierre Friedlingstein (University of Exeter, UK)
Dr. Tatiana Ilyina (Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
Kornelia Müller (Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
Gaby Langendijk (WCRP, Switzerland)