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This book assesses the current greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring capabilities of Europe, identifies and quantifies the uncertainties involved, and outlines the direction to a continental scale GHG monitoring network. The book uniquely addresses both the methodology of carbon cycle science and the science itself, providing a synthesis of carbon cycle science. The methods included provide the first comprehensive coverage of a full GHG accounting and monitoring system.

The Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance of Europe

Introduction: Observing the Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Balance.- Observing a Vulnerable Carbon Cycle.- Assimilation and Network Design.- Quantifying Fossil Fuel CO2 over Europe.- Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Carbon Emissions.- Issues in Establishing In Situ Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Networks in Europe and in Regions of Interest to Europe.- Estimating Sources and Sinks of Methane: An Atmospheric View.- Designing an Observation Strategy for N2O.- Monitoring Carbon Stock Changes in European Soils: Process Understanding and Sampling Strategies.- Monitoring Carbon Stock Changes in European Forests Using Forest Inventory Data.- Flux Tower Sites, State of the Art, and Network Design.- Observations and Status of Peatland Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe.- Towards a Full Accounting of the Greenhouse Gas Balance of European Grasslands.- Regional Measurements and Modelling of Carbon Exchange.- Using Satellite Observations in Regional Scale Calculations of Carbon Exchange.- The Lateral Carbon Pump, and the European Carbon Balance.- Multiple Constraint Estimates of the European Carbon Balance.- A Roadmap for a Continental-Scale Greenhouse Gas Observing System in Europe.