1. The 4th Annual meeting of CarboEurope-IP E.-D. Schulze, coordinator MPI Biogeochemie, Jena Crete, November 13 to 17, 2006

2. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Welcome to the 4th Meeting of CarboEurope-IP 2004 kick-up: Spoleto, Italy 2004 1st annual meeting: Dublin, Ireland 2005 2nd annual meeting: Levi, Finland 2006 3rd annual meeting: Crete, Greece 2007 4th annual meeting: ???

3. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Objectives of CarboEurope-IP: A reminder of the Strategic objective: The overarching aim of CarboEurope-IP is to understand, quantify and predict the terrestrial carbon balance of Europe and associated uncertainties at local, regional and continental scale

4. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Main Objectives

5. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze The European Carbon Balance 1.by top-down inverse modelling 2.by bottom-up modelling based on eddy covariance measurements and on changes in Carbon pools 3.To develop a innovative data assimilation framework

6. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Processes and Model Predictions 4. to determine the partitioning of fluxes 5. to quantify effects of management 6. to develop, evaluate and optimize ecosystem process models

7. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Detection of Kyoto 7. to provide an observation system of atmospheric measurements 8. To develop the outline of a full Carbon accounting system for the second commitment period

8. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze In this conference we will learn about the progress made since Levi, and based on the EU-review and the review report we have made some organizational changes to reach the main goal I hope we can summarize this in the general assembley the last day

9. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze In oder to enforce the work on the main objectives, the Scientific Steering Committee decided to establish 4 Task forces: 1.The European Terrestrial C-Balance 2.Processes and Modelling 3.Detection of Kyoto 4.Systematic Quantification of Uncertainties

10. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze The novel part of the organization of this meeting will be that there are Main Sessions, –in which these topics are discussed –and in which scientific work is being developed for the next two years so we can meet these objectives –To invite the other Carbo-projects to share their approaches and knowledge with us

11. CarboEurope-IP, Crete 2006 E.-D. Schulze Have a fruitful meeting

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