Plenary Talks

Theme 1: Past carbon variations including the fate of fossil fuel emissions

Longer term variations

09.30 - 09.45
Constraints on the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) deglacial rise based on its stable carbon isotopic ratio increase (d13CO2)
Anna Lourantou (Gif-sur-Yvette St. Martin d´Héres/FR), Jo`t V. Lavri, Elisabeth Michel, Didier Paillard (Gif-Sur-Yvette/FR), Jean-Marc Barnola, Dominique Raynaud, Jérôme Chappellaz (St Martin d'Hères/FR), Peter Köhler (Bremerhaven/DE)

09.45 – 10.00
Global carbon cycle changes during the Holocene based on ice-core stable carbon isotope measurements
Joachim Elsig, Markus Leuenberger (Bern/CH), Jochen Schmitt, Hubertus Fischer (Bern/CH,Bremerhaven/DE), Daiana Leuenberger, Robert Schneider, Marc Eyer, Fortunat Joos, Thomas Stocker (Bern/CH)

10.00 – 10.15
Anthropogenic land cover change and the carbon cycle - a GCM study on the
beginning of the Anthropocene
Julia Pongratz, Thomas Raddatz, Christian H. Reick, Martin Claussen (Hamburg/DE)

Fossil fuel emissions

10.15 – 10.30
The Uncertainty in global and national estimates of CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel combustion
Gregg Marland (Oak Ridge/US), Khrystyna Hamal (Lviv/UA), Matthias Jonas (Laxenburg/AT)

Role of the ocean

11.30 – 11.45
Estimation of Anthropogenic CO2 Inventories in the Ocean
Christopher Sabine (Seattle/US), Toste Tanhua (Kiel/DE)

11.45 – 12.00
Oceanic sources and sinks for atmospheric CO2: Recent insights and trends
Nicolas Gruber, Xavier Giraud (Zürich/CH), Sara Mikaloff Fletcher (Wellington/NZ), Nicole S. Lovenduski (Fort Collins/US), Taro Takahashi (Palisades/ES)

12.00 – 12.15
Reconciling Modeled Ocean Carbon Fluxes With Atmospheric 13C Observations
Caroline Alden, James White, John Miller (Boulder/US)

12.15 – 12.30
Trend of carbon increase and oxygen decrease in the interior of the western North Pacific subtropical gyre
Masao Ishii, Daisuke Sasano, Naohiro Kosugi,Takashi Midorikawa (Tsukuba/JP), Yusuke Takatani, Takayuki Tokieda, Toshiya Nakano (Tokyo/JP), Hisayuki Inoue (Sapporo/JP)

14.30 – 14.45
Decadal variations of the ocean carbon dioxide system observed in the Southern Ocean
Nicolas Metzl, Andrew Lenton (Paris/F), Bronte Tilbrook (Hobart/AU), Taro Takahashi (Palisades/ES), Dorothee Bakker (Norwich/GB), Masao Ishii (Tsukuba/JP), Chistopher Sabine (Seattle/US), Colm Sweeney (Boulder/US), Mario Hoppema (Bremerhaven/D), Benjamin Pfeil, Are Olsen (Bergen/NO), Hisayuki Yoshikawa-Inoue (Sapporo/JP)

Role of the land biosphere

14.45 – 15.00
Carbon storage in intact tropical forests, 1980-2005
Simon Lewis, Oliver Phillips, Afritron Consortium, Rainfor Consortium (Leeds/GB)

15.00 – 15.15
Global Terrestrial Net Carbon Flux Variability Inferred from upscaling of Eddy Covariance Measurements
Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Enrico Tomelleri, Christian Beer (Jena/DE), Dennis Baldocchi (Berkeley/US), Nadine Gobron (Ispra/IT), Christian Rödenbeck (Jena/DE), Dario Papale (Viterbo/IT)

15.15. – 15.30
Anthropogenic change and carbon-nitrogen feedbacks in the terrestrial biosphere
Stefan Gerber, Lars O. Hedin, Elena Shevliakova, Stephen W. Pacala, Michael Oppenheimer (Princeton/US)

Global budgets and syntheses

17.00 – 17.15
Implications of observed changes in atmospheric O2 concentration since 1990
Ralph Keeling (La Jolla/US), Nicolas Cassar, Michael Bender (Princeton/US)

17.15 – 17.30
Trends in recent global atmospheric CO2 growth do not mirror trends in emission estimates
Roger Francey, Cathy Trudinger, Marcel van der Schoot, Paul Krummel, Paul Steele, Ray Langenfelds (Aspendale/AU)

17.30 – 17.45
Recent Anomalous Growth of Atmospheric CH4 - Can we Explain It?
Lori Bruhwiler, Ed Dlugokencky (Boulder/US)

17.45 – 18.00
Recent trends in the global carbon cycle
Corinne Le Quere (Norwich/GB), Michael Raupach, Joseph G. Canadell (Canberra/AU), Gregg Marland (Oak Ridge/US), Laurent Bopp, Philippe Ciais (Gif sur Yvette/F), Thomas J. Conway (Boulder/US), Scott Doney (Woods Hole/US), Richard Feely (Seattle/US), Christopher B. Field (Stanford/US), Pru Foster (Bristol/GB), Pierre Friedlingstein (Gif sur Yvette/F,Bristol/GB), Richard A. Houghton (Falmouth/US), Chris Huntingford (Wallingford/US), Peter Levy (Edinburgh/GB), Mark R. Lomas (Sheffield/GB), Nicolas Metzl (Paris/F), Anne Mouchet (Liege/BE), Colin Prentice (Bristol/GB), James T. Randerson (Missoula/US), Steven W. Running (Liege/BE), Jorge L. Sarmiento (Princeton/US), Ute Schuster (Norwich/GB), Stephen Sitch (Leeds/GB), Taro Takahashi (Leeds/GB,Palisades/ES), Nicolas Viovy (Gif sur Yvette/F), Guido van der Werf (Amsterdam/NL),I Woodward (Sheffield/GB)