Soils and the Greenhouse Effect
The Present Status and Future Trends Concerning the Effect of Soils and Their Cover on the Fluxes of Greenhouse Gasses, the Surface Energy Balance, and the Water Balance : Proceedings of the International Conference Soils and the Greenhouse Effect
Description:... Conclusions and recommendations of conference working groups. Background. Global distribution of the major soils and land cover types. Exchange of greenhouse gases between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere. Estimating the effect of changing land use on transpiration and evaporation. The effect changing land cover on the surface energy balance. Remote sensing techniques for monitoring of vegetation, and for estimating evapotranspiration and phytomass production . Soil processes and properties involved in the production of greenhouse gases, with special relevance to soil taxonomic systems. Geography. Quantification of soil and change in their properties. Modelling global terrestrial sources and sinkes of CO2 with special reference to soil organic matter. Biotic sources of nitous oxide(N2O) in the context of the global budget of nitrous oxide. Soil and land use related sources and sinks of methane(CH4) in the context of the global methane budget. Gas flux measurement techiques with special reference to techniques suitable for measurements over large ecologically uniform areas. Analysis of vegetation changes using satellite data. Global data bases for evaluating trace gas sources and sinks. The effect of land use change on net radiation and its partitioning into heat fluxes. Quantification of regional dry and wet canopy evaporation. Concluding ramarks. Extended abstracts. Greenhouse gas fluxes; carbon dioxide. Grenhouse gas fluxes; methane., Grenhouse gas fluxes; nitrous oxide. Methods. Partitioning of solar energy. Soil moisture.
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