Following the CO2 Human Emissions (CHE) project, and the Observation-based system for monitoring and verification of greenhouse gases (VERIFY) project, CoCO2 aims to create a prototype of anthropogenic CO2 emission Monitoring and Verification Support (i.e. the CO2MVS) systems at global, regional, and local scales. The global modelling and data assimilation work package 3 (WP3) of CoCO2 is focused on the development of the CO2MVS at global scale, with the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at the core, with several planned developments, among them the community land-surface modelling for vegetation carbon exchange fluxes based on ECLand. In this context, biogenic fluxes play a fundamental role in the carbon cycle with a key component centred on the capacity of plants to absorb carbon via photosynthesis, with land use and land cover being crucial for its correct representation in the model.
This deliverable is integrated in Task 3.3 of WP3, aiming to improve global simulations of biogenic fluxes and to integrate land-surface remote sensing observations and ancillary data related to vegetation carbon exchanges in the IFS prototype. The objectives are focused on land-surface mapping and modelling improvements by exploring the role of high-resolution land cover change products on biogenic fluxes in the ECLand system, as well as its impact on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) metrics.
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