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TRAGNET United States Trace Gas Network Database Entry ID: TRAGNET_NREL |
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Summary
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Abstract:
TRAGNET United States Trace Gas Network The United States Trace Gas Network (TRAGNET) is meant to accomplish two goals, including documenting contemporary fluxes of CO2, CH4 and N2O between regionally important ecosystems and the atmosphere, and determining the factors controlling these fluxes and improve our ability to predict future fluxes in response to ecosystem and climate change. The research for this project is funded by the National Science Foundation. The atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) are increasing substantially. These increases are expected to result in global warming and changes in precipitation patterns, and may directly affect terrestrial ecosystems. Our understanding of the contemporary fluxes of these gases between the land and atmosphere is incomplete. There are large regions of the earth for which we have very little information on trace gas fluxes. Furthermore, for no region do we fully understand how global change, including land-use change, will affect gas fluxes. Data URL: "http://nrel.colostate.edu/projects/tragnet/tragnetSites.html" Information taken from "http://nrel.colostate.edu/projects/tragnet/" |
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Location Keywords
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CONTINENT
> NORTH AMERICA
> CANADA
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA > ALASKA |
Science Keywords
| ATMOSPHERE >AIR QUALITY >NITROGEN OXIDES [Definition] |
| ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY >TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES [Definition] |
| LAND SURFACE >SOILS >CARBON [Definition] |
| LAND SURFACE >SOILS >SOIL CHEMISTRY [Definition] |
| LAND SURFACE >SOILS >SOIL WATER HOLDING CAPACITY [Definition] |
| ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY >CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS >CARBON DIOXIDE [Definition] |
| ATMOSPHERE >ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY >CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS >METHANE [Definition] |
ISO Topic Category
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CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
ENVIRONMENT GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION |
Data Center
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Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
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Data Center URL: http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/
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Personnel
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CHRISTINA
J.
LIEF Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: +1 (828) 271-4101 Email: christina.lief at noaa.gov Contact Address: Program Manager Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC) NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC - Room 459 City: Asheville, NC Province or State: NC Postal Code: 28801 Country: USA |
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date:
2003-06-03
Last DIF Revision Date:
2010-09-20
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