Title
MERIS-Based Assessment of Carbon Supply into the Arctic by River RunOff
Acronym
MACRO
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The flux of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from major rivers into the coastal waters of Siberia (Kara Sea) will be estimated from time series of ENVISAT/MERIS data. For that purpose algorithms will be adapted and optimized to determine gelbstoff, find the conversion between DOC and gelbstoff absorption and solve the problem of cloud interpolation for that area. Furthermore the biomass of phytoplankton and the transport of suspended solids into the coastal waters will be estimated. Expected major deliverables are: Quantified (i) fluxes of DOC into the Kara Sea from the major estuaries, (ii) pool of DOC in the Kara Sea (iii) fluxes of DOC out of the Kara Sea into the open Arctic regions. The role of Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht is to give support in the development of algorithms and processing of data.
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| Start Date |
End Date |
Duration |
| February 2007 |
January 2009 |
23 months |
| EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area |
INTAS ESA joint call 2006 |
| Project Type |
RTD |
| Contract Number |
06-1000025-9142 |
| Co-ordinator |
Max-Plank-Institut für Meteorologie Hamburg (DE) |
| Total Eligible Costs (€) |
HZG Eligible Costs (€) |
EC Funding for HZG (€) |
| 120.000 |
10.000 |
10.000 |
| Contact Person at HZG |
Dr. Roland Doerffer, Institute for Coastal Research, KOF
Phone: +49 4152 87 1580, Fax : +49 4152 87 1596
e-mail Contact
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Nansen Environmental and RemoteSensing Center (NO),
Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (RU),
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre (RU),
P. P. Shirshov Institute for Oceanology (RU)
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(completed January 2009)
| Last Update: 29. October 2010 |
