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The past two decades have brought a fundamental change in the world view of the sciences of the Earth. We have become aware that global change cuts across all components of the Earth System: solid earth, biosphere, atmosphere and oceans.
The Group Earth System Science and Climate Change (ESS CC) from Wageningen UR has its mission to advance our understanding of the Earth and Climate System as a complex system, with specific inclusion of the anthropogenic and human components. Properties and processes of the components of the Earth System, such as carbon or water cycles in the terrestrial and atmospheric compartments, are investigated as integral parts of the system, focusing on their interactions and feedbacks.
The Team Earth System Science (ESS) and Climate Change is a functional merger of the chair group Earth System Sciences in the department of Environmental Sciences of Wageningen University and the team Land Atmosphere Interactions of Alterra in 2006. As such we invest in education at BSc, MSc and PhD levels, but also in competitive contract research on both fundamental and more policy oriented questions.
The team addresses the sciences of the Earth from a holistic perspective. Properties and processes of components of the Earth system, such as carbon or water cycles in the land and atmospheric compartments, are under investigation as integral parts of a system, focusing on their interactions and feedbacks. Obviously, in the era of Global Change, humanity is also a part of the Earth System. Therefore we also host social scientific research. |
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ESS CC develops innovative methods and tools (both observational and modeling ones), with a common aim to advance scientific understanding, as well as to support policies and strategic decision making processes in the field of climate, water and the environment.
ESS CC has a leading role in EU funded research projects, such as Combine, HighNoon and WATCH, and coordinates scientifically in two major national climate research programs Climate changes Spatial Planning and Knowledge for Climate. Other important programs, which ESS CC contributes to are the Wadden Academy and Delta Alliance.
ESS CC Team member Laurens Ganzeveld had been on Greenland in 2009 for a short while, doing research in an US National Science Foundation project on long term measurements of reactive trace gas exchange between snow and the atmosphere. Read his experiences at his weblog.
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The 200 m tower in Cabauw and the BRSN (Baseline Surface Radiation Network) site.
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