Permafrost Research Towards Integrated Observation and Modelling of the Methane Budget of Ecosystems
The project MOMENT (Permafrost Research Towards Integrated Observation and Modelling of the Methane Budget of Ecosystems) will close important gaps in the process understanding of the methane cycle in northern latitudes using innovative laboratory studies and multi-scale methane flux observations based on state-of-the-art infrastructure.
Goals
MOMENT's ambitious goals will be achieved through innovations in experimental and observational techniques. These will enable observations at remote sites under extreme Arctic winter conditions and include regional studies based on mobile canopy measurements with new portable greenhouse gas analysers, as well as innovative laboratory methods that decipher, for example, the response of microbial food webs. New remote sensing products facilitate mapping of the finest structures in the Arctic, while novel computing infrastructure and modelling approaches enable the integration of all this information into next-generation ESMs. The integrated use of these resources enables MOMENT to fill a critical gap in the Global Carbon Project and IPCC reports for the first time and will significantly impact the next generation of climate change predictions.
Project organization
MOMENT is divided into four sub-projects:
- Subproject 1: Scientific-technical coordination
- Subproject 2: Process studies on methane production and oxidation: from micro to pedon scale
- Subproject 3: Effects of permafrost thawing and formation on the methane fluxes in heterogeneous tundra landscapes (from Pedon to Landscape)
- Subproject 4: Subproject 4: Recent spatio-temporal patterns of methane processes in terrestrial permafrost ecosystems
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Duration: 01.11.2022 - 31.10.2025
Coordination: Universität Hamburg - Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences (MIN) – Department of Earth System Sciences – Institute of Soil Science Prof. Dr. Christian Beer