About the project
While land-atmosphere exchanges of carbon, water, and energy are key to understanding changes in the Earth system, we still fundamentally lack a methodology to obtain representative estimates of these surface fluxes at the scale of a single grid cell of an Earth System Model, let alone for a wider region.
ACTIVATE combines an observing system consisting of a swarm of drones carrying meteorological sensors and gas analyzers, mobile and stationary flux towers, as well as satellites, and fuses their observations with different land-atmosphere models using data assimilation methods.
In order to achieve the goals of the project, the researchers will work interdisciplinary and combine expertise from geosciences, technology systems and machine learning.
Objectives
We will apply the ACTIVATE framework around existing observatories in vulnerable arctic regions, where the lack of strong observational constraints from state-of-the-art observing systems is particularly apparent and problematic.
ACTIVATE will produce: unprecedented observational datasets for new model developments in some of the most data-sparse regions on Earth, uncertainty-aware parameter estimates for critically unconstrained processes, and a pioneering active experimental design framework for terrestrial observing systems.
Financing
Starting Grants (StG). The full name of this project is 'Actively learning experimental design in terrestrial climate science (ACTIVATE)'.
The project period: Date for start: 2024-01-01. Deadline: 2028-12-31.
Objective
The ACTIVATE project is an interdisciplinary research collaboration mainly with researchers at the University of Oslo, but may also include collaboration with researchers from various other institutions.
Tools / infrastructure
This project benefits from and uses the infrastructure 'The Drone Infrastructure Lab' and 'The LATICE-Flux Infrastructure Lab'. These laboratories are established infrastructure for research developed and built up at Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway. The infrastructure with instrumentation are in use by different research projects at University of Oslo.
Visit the webpages for The Drone Infrastructure Lab
Visit the webpages for The LATICE-Flux Infrastructure Lab
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