CAREER: Highly Resolved, Process-Driven Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Inventory to Advance Carbon Science, Climate Science and 21st Century Decisionmaking and Public Engagement

职业：高度解析、过程驱动的化石燃料二氧化碳清单，以推进碳科学、气候科学和 21 世纪决策和公众参与

• 批准号: 0846358
• 负责人: Jonathan Harbor
• 金额: $ 64.71万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0846358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Highly; Resolved; Process; Driven

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Quantifying the global fossil fuel carbon dioxide (CO2) flux at high space/time resolution has emerged as a critical need in both carbon cycle and climate change science. The Vulcan Project led by the Principal Investigator (PI) has recently completed such an inventory for the United States at 10 km/hourly scales with mechanistic detail. In this project, the PI plans to:Extend Vulcan: Build a global fossil fuel CO2 emissions inventory that more accurately allocates emissions in space/time than is currently available. The PI will combine the recently-constructed global power plant database, monthly energy supply/demand statistics, digital road atlas data, and NASA "nightlights" observations to build this inventory. Enlist Vulcan: With the improved global Vulcan emissions as a key boundary condition, the PI will generate new inverse estimates of the non-fossil net carbon exchange, utilizing a traditional Bayesian inverse approach and a maximum likelihood ensemble filter assimilation system. Sensitivity and error analysis will be performed.Enrich Vulcan: The North American Vulcan inventory can offer much more insight through integration of carbon science with social science and economics to create new knowledge and support national priorities in carbon management and climate change mitigation. The open, accessible, visual data will empower/educate the public and overcome many of the conceptual barriers to understanding the climate change problem. This information will be hosted online in an open, visual, web-compliant domain.Educate with Vulcan: The PI will build the "Footprint" Lab, a virtual learning environment where students "adopt" a country/U.S. state and collaborate with researchers, instructors and the public on discovery, verification, application, and other activities that immerse them in a long-term, collaborative research network. The virtual lab will consist of a geographic information system (GIS)-based, Google Earth-like, interactive, collaborative environment.This research is part of a long-term vision aimed at advancing fundamental knowledge of carbon biogeochemistry and climate change science through downscaling of fossil fuel CO2 fluxes and incorporating those fluxes into inverse/assimilation systems. This long-term vision also aims to benefit national priorities in carbon management, mitigation, carbon trading and energy policy. In order to build the global fossil CO2 flux inventory and enrich the existing North American inventory a virtual, interactive learning environment will be constructed. This will form the basis of a long-term, web 2.0-style network in which students, instructors, researchers and the public interact, collaborate and share knowledge. The "placed-based" nature of the research offers a compelling entry point for students of diverse geographic, ethnic, and intellectual backgrounds in addition to offering a web-based platform for public engagement and education.

该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。以高空间/时间分辨率量化全球化石燃料二氧化碳 (CO2) 通量已成为碳循环和气候变化科学的关键需求。 由首席研究员 (PI) 领导的 Vulcan 项目最近以 10 公里/小时的速度为美国完成了这样的清单，其中包含机械细节。 在该项目中，PI 计划： 扩展 Vulcan：建立一个全球化石燃料二氧化碳排放清单，该清单比目前可用的更准确地分配空间/时间的排放量。 PI将结合最近构建的全球发电厂数据库、每月能源供应/需求统计数据、数字道路地图集数据和NASA“夜灯”观测来建立这个清单。 Enlist Vulcan：以改善的全球 Vulcan 排放作为关键边界条件，PI 将利用传统的贝叶斯逆方法和最大似然集合过滤同化系统生成非化石净碳交换的新逆估计。 将进行灵敏度和误差分析。丰富 Vulcan：北美 Vulcan 清单可以通过将碳科学与社会科学和经济学相结合提供更多见解，以创造新知识并支持国家在碳管理和气候变化缓解方面的优先事项。 开放、可访问的可视化数据将增强/教育公众并克服理解气候变化问题的许多概念障碍。 这些信息将在一个开放、可视、符合网络标准的域中在线托管。与 Vulcan 一起进行教育：PI 将建立“足迹”实验室，这是一个虚拟学习环境，学生可以在其中“采用”一个国家/美国。陈述并与研究人员、教师和公众合作进行发现、验证、应用和其他活动，使他们沉浸在长期的协作研究网络中。 该虚拟实验室将由一个基于地理信息系统（GIS）、类似谷歌地球的交互式协作环境组成。这项研究是长期愿景的一部分，旨在通过缩小化石燃料二氧化碳通量并将这些通量纳入逆/同化系统来推进碳生物地球化学和气候变化科学的基础知识。 这一长期愿景还旨在有利于国家在碳管理、减排、碳交易和能源政策方面的优先事项。 为了建立全球化石二氧化碳通量清单并丰富北美现有清单，将构建一个虚拟的交互式学习环境。 这将构成一个长期的 Web 2.0 式网络的基础，学生、教师、研究人员和公众可以在其中互动、协作和共享知识。该研究的“基于地点”的性质除了为公众参与和教育提供基于网络的平台之外，还为不同地理、种族和知识背景的学生提供了一个引人注目的切入点。