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Climate and Carbon Exchange
How carbon moves into and out of the forest, and how carbon cycles within the forest, is fundamental to understanding the forest's metabolism. Weather and climate affect the forest's metabolism, and in turn, how much carbon the forest absorbs from the atmosphere may mitigate climate change. Long-term eddy-covariance measurements provide continuous estimates of atmosphere-biosphere exchange of carbon, water, energy, ozone, and nitrogen compounds.
Key research programs addressing climate and carbon exchange at the Harvard Forest include:
- Eddy-flux towers measuring atmospheric composition and forest-atmosphere exchange of carbon, water, energy, and other trace gases.
- Phenology - the season rhythms of the forest
- Meteorological and Hydrological stations
- Precipiation manipulation - mimicking extreme precipitation events in temperate forest edges
Associated Researchers
Emery Boose
Eric Davidson (University of Maryland)
Mark Friedl (Boston University)
Lucy Hutyra (Boston University)
J. William Munger (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Andrew Reinmann (City University of New York / Hunter College)
Andrew Richardson (Northern Arizona University)
Jim Tang (Marine Biological Laboratory)
Pamela Templer (BU)
Christopher Williams (Clark University)
Steven Wofsy (Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
Related Data & Publications
Publications - Published papers from Harvard Forest research related to climate and carbon exchange.
Datasets - Data and metadata for climate and carbon exchange research at the Forest.
Abstracts for Current Research - Summaries of ongoing climate and carbon exchange research at the Forest.
