Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/A/S/2001/00460
Climate, snow and hydrology in tundra ecosystems interactions, feedbacks and scaling issues.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor R Baxter, Durham University, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Harding, NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019), Reynard
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor B Huntley, Durham University, Biosciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor T Callaghan, University of Sheffield, School of Biosciences
- Grant held at:
- Durham University, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Biodiversity
- Science Topics:
- Environmental Physiology
- Land - Atmosphere Interactions
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- Arctic tundra landscapes exist as a mosaic of vegetation (graminoid-, dwarf-shrub and lichen-dominated) related to topography, soil type and hydrology (wet, mesic, dry tundra). The key driver of this fine-scale mosaic is the pattern, depth and duration of snow-lie. Changes in snow-lie within the landscape, resulting from climate change, may alter the vegetation and soils of the tundra regions that modulate fluxes of trace gases (CO2 and CH4, H2O) between tundra and atmosphere. Current models do not take account of this. Our key objective is therefore to improve quantification of seasonal trace gas flux and energy balance between surface and atmosphere at the landscape scale in high latitude tundra, and the potential feedbacks to radiative forcing of climate, taking into account this fine-scale landscape mosaic mediated by the dynamics of winter snow cover and its duration.
- Period of Award:
- 1 Sep 2002 - 31 Aug 2006
- Value:
- £183,345 Lead Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NER/A/S/2001/00460
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Standard Grants Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Standard Grant
This grant award has a total value of £183,345
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £23,846 | £94,616 | £10,547 | £54,334 |
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