The role of the carbon and nitrogen cycle

Too much of a good thing Nature (2011), Vol. 472, pp. 159-61, doi:10.1038/472159a Nitrogen in Current European Policies European Nitrogen Assessment (2011), pp. 62-81, http://www.nine-esf.org/ENA-Book Future Scenarios of Nitrogen in Europe European Nitrogen Assessment (2011), pp. 551-569, http://www.nine-esf.org/ENA-Book Carbon and nitrogen cycle demands in the O-CN land surface model: 2. Role of nitrogen cycle in the historical terrestrial carbon balance Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2010) Vol. 24, GB1006, doi:10.1029/2009GB003522. Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on the Open Ocean Science 16 May 2008, Vol. 320, no. 5878, pp. 893-897, doi: 10.1126/science.1150369.

JRC publications and peer reviewed papers related to climate change

Support to climate policy
Research at JRC in support of EU climate change policy making The 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 17 (2011): http://ccaqu.jrc.ec.europa.eu/COP17/JRC-CC-COP17.pdf Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone UNEP and WMO (2011 JRC among lead authors): http://www.unep.org/dewa/Portals/67/pdf/BlackCarbon_report.pdf Global analysis of the long-term CO2 emission trend JRC-PBL Scientific and Technical Report (2011) http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/news_docs/C02%20Mondiaal_%20webdef_19sept.pdf Estimation of the Measurement Uncertainty of Ambient Air Pollution Datasets Using Geostatistical Analysis JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/44902 Review of Published Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Measures Related with Water JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/18203 European Capacity for Monitoring and Assimilating Space-based Climate Change Observations Status and Prospects JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/70393 Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies already in practice based on the 1st River Basin Management Plans of the EU Member States JRC Scientific and Technical Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/83841 Regulating Air Emissions from Ships: The State of the Art on Methodologies, Technologies and Policy Options JRC Reference Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/4171 Climate and air quality impacts of combined climate change and air pollution policy scenarios JRC Scientific and Technical Report (2010): http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/111111111/15085/1/lbna24572enc.pdf Economic assessment of post-2012 global climate policies Analysis of gas greenhouse emission reduction scenarios with the POLES and GEM-E3 models JRC Scientific and Technical Report (2009): http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC50307.pdf Global climate policy scenarios for 2030 and beyond Analysis of greenhouse gas emission reduction pathways scenarios with the POLES and GEM-E3 models JRC Reference Report (2007): http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/eur23032en.pdf

Biosphere Climate interaction

Inverse modelling of European N2O emissions: Assimilating observations from different networks Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2011), Vol.11, pp.2381-2398, doi:10.5194/acp-11-2381-2011 Global column-averaged methane mixing ratios from 2003-2009 as derived from SCIAMACHY: Trends and variability Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (2011), Vol. 116, pp. 1-12, doi:10.1029/2010JD014849 Inverse modeling of European CH4 emissions 2001-2006 Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (2010), Vol. 115, pp. 1-18, doi:10.1029/2010JD014180 Global forest land-use change from 1990 to 2005 FAO & JRC technical report (2011): http://foris.fao.org/static/data/fra2010/RSS_Summary_Report_lowres.pdf Global convergence in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at ecosystem level Science 13 August 2010, Vol. 329, no. 5993, pp. 838-840, doi: 10.1126/science.1189587. Terrestrial gross carbon dioxide uptake: global distribution and covariation with climate Science 13 August 2010, Vol. 329, no. 5993, pp. 834-838, doi: 10.1126/science.1184984. Climatic impact of land use in LCA-carbon transfers between vegetation/soil and air The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment (2010), Vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 172-182, doi:10.1007/s11367009-0144-y. Carbon accumulation in European forests Nature Geoscience 22 June 2008, pp. 425-429, doi:10.1038/ngeo233. Making deforestation pay under the Kyoto protocol? Science 14 March 2003, Vol. 299, no. 5613, p. 1669, doi: 10.1126/science.1079024. Determination of deforestation rates of the world's humid tropical forests Science 9 August 2002, Vol. 297, no. 5583, pp. 999-1002, doi: 10.1126/science.1070656. Human role in Russian wild fires Nature 23 March 2006, Vol. 440, pp. 436-437, doi:10.1038/440436a.

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Impacts of climate change

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply Nature 10 October 2010, doi:10.1038/nature09396. Flood hazard in Europe in an ensemble of regional climate scenarios Journal of Geophysical Research (2009) Vol. 114, D16108, doi:10.1029/2008JD011523. Impact of global warming on streamflow drought in Europe Journal of Geophysical Research (2009) Vol. 114, D17116, doi:10.1029/2008JD011438. Fluvial flood risk in Europe in present and future climates. Climatic Change (2011), doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0339-7 Improving pan-European hydrological simulation of extreme events through statistical bias correction of RCM-driven climate simulations. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (2011), Vol.8, pp. 2599-2620., doi:10.5194/hessd-8-3883-2011 Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling Agricultural and Forestry Meteorology (2011), Vol.151, pp. 765-773, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.01.018 Physical and economic consequences of climate change in Europe Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (2010), Vol. 108, pp. 2678-2683, doi:10.1073/pnas.1011612108 There is no such thing as an average: How farmers manage uncertainty related to climate & other factors International journal of water resources development (2010), Vol.26, pp. 523-542, doi:10.1080/07900627.2010.519515 Climate science in support of sustainable agriculture Climate Research (2011), Vol. 47, pp. 95-110, doi:10.3354/cr00954 Assessment of future scenarios of climate and land-use changes in the IMPRINTS test-bed areas Environmental Science & Policy (2011), Vol.14, pp. 884-897, doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2011.03.003 Impacts of Europes changing climate 2008 indicator-based assessment JRC Reference Report (2008): http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/downloads/jrc_reference_report_2008_09_climate_change.pdf

Biofuels
Indirect land use change from increased biofuels demand comparison of models and results for marginal biofuels production from different feedstocks JRC Scientific and Technical Report (2010): http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/bftp/download/ILUC_modelling_comparison.pdf Biofuels: a new methodology to estimate GHG emissions due to global land use change. A methodology involving spatial allocation of agricultural land demand and estimation of CO2 and N2O emissions JRC Scientific and Technical Report (2010): http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/bftp/download/EU_report_24483_Final.pdf

Climate change and air pollution: two entwined issues

Simultaneously mitigating near-term climate change and improving human health and food security. Science (2012), Vol. 335, pp. 183-189, DOI: 10.1126/science.1210026 Climate, health, agriculture and economic impacts of tighter vehicle emission standards Nature Climate Change (2011) Vol. 1, pp. 59- 64, doi:10.1038/nclimate1066 Estimating air emissions from ships: Meta-analysis of modelling approaches and available data sources Atmospheric Environment (2011), Vol. 45, pp. 2242-2251, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.046 Atmospheric chemistry-climate feedbacks Journal of Geophysical Research (2010) Vol. 115, D12121, doi:10.1029/2009JD013300. A GCM study of future climate response to aerosol pollution reductions Climate Dynamics (2010) Vol. 34, pp. 1177-1194, doi:10.1007/s00382-009-0573-0. A European aerosol phenomenology 3: Physical and chemical characteristics of particulate matter from 60 rural, urban, and kerbside sites across Europe Atmospheric Environment (2010) Vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1308-1320. New Directions: Climate change and air pollution abatement: a bumpy road Atmospheric Environment (2009) Vol. 43, no. 32, pp. 5132-5133. Toward a standardised thermal-optical protocol for measuring atmospheric organic and elemental carbon: the EUSAAR protocol Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2009) Vol. 2, pp. 2321-2345. Influence of future air pollution mitigation strategies on total aerosol radiative forcing Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2008) Vol. 8, pp. 5563-5627. A multi-model assessment of pollution transport to the Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2008) Vol. 8, no. 17, pp. 5353-5372. Climate assessment: what's next? Science 30 November 2007, Vol. 318, no. 5855, p. 1386, doi: 10.1126/science.1147873. Biogenically driven organic contribution to marine aerosol Nature 7 October 2004, Vol. 431, pp. 676-680, doi:10.1038/nature02959.

Economics of climate change

Background Guide for the Calculation of Land Carbon Stocks in the Biofuels Sustainability Scheme Drawing on the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories JRC Reference Reports (2010), doi:10.2788/34463 Climate change impacts in Europe (covering human health, coastal systems, tourism and agriculture) Final report of the PESETA research project (2009): http://ftp.jrc.es/EURdoc/JRC55391.pdf