Winter Critical Zone dynamics in the High Arctic: measuring carbon fluxes and geo-biological processes at the Bayelva Critical Zone Observatory during winter

Altre Istituzioni e soggetti coinvolti: Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" - Dipartimento di Biologia; Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung; Queen Mary University of London; University of Cologne, Institute of Geology and Mineralogy

Il progetto: We propose to integrate the existing field instrumentation of the projects CZO@Bayelva and TMPT@CNR_NYA in Ny Ålesund (NO) to fill the knowledge gap on the properties and drivers of winter CO2 fluxes in the High Arctic. The work will be done in the framework of the international T-MOSAiC program. We shall install new fixed devices for winter monitoring of soil, snow, CO2 fluxes and microbiological activity in the Bayelva basin, developing data services and data-driven and process-based models.