Abstract Project: AWIPEV_0029

Peter Dietrich (UFZ Leipzig)

The dynamics of soil moisture, snow, permafrost, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Arctic regions are strongly influenced by global change. For the development of a better understanding of the interrelationships, cross-compartment monitoring approaches are being tested, evaluated and applied in this project within the framework of the Helmholtz cross-center research infrastructure MOSES. Polar MOSES will apply mobile OP-FTIR systems to measure GHG, geophysical EMI methods to investigate near-surface permafrost, One of the foci is primarily targeted to provide essential data for validating remote sensing products such as the EnMAP hyperspectral satellite mission (Environmental Mapping Analysis Program) and the future Methane Remote Sensing LIDAR Mission (MERLIN). Within the project geophysical measurements (e.g., electromagnetic induction methods - EMI) for fast mapping of spatial soil heterogeneities of the permafrost as influencing factors for GHG emissions are to be carried out.