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Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is one of the main negative emission technologies to achieve carbon neutrality and mitigate climate change. Its basic principle is to fix carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in biomass by planting fast-growing energy crops (such as eucalyptus, willow and switchgrass), and to store the discharged CO2 after the burning of the biomass, so as to achiev...
Protected areas (PAs) are the frontline of biodiversity conservation, and the establishment of a protected area is also an effective approach to improve the quality of ecology and environment. The adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework has drawn a new blueprint for global biodiversity governance in the period from now to 2030 or even longer. Among the many factors affect...
Urban growth models (UGMs) are the primary tool for generating urban growth projections. Various UGMs based on different modeling frameworks and core algorithms have been made available since the 1950s. However, comparative study of the performance of different models is relatively inadequate. Researchers lack reference basis in choosing a model and the UAM in their research on the projection o...
Against the backdrops of global warming, the overall warming and wetting of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) has led to the increase of land evapotranspiration and the adjustment of surface energy budget. What are impacts of these surface energy changes on precipitation? To address the above question, Yang Kun's Research Group of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University analyz...
Soils store four times as much carbon as vegetation. Loss of soil organic carbon may accelerate global warming, whereas promoting soil carbon storage to sequester more carbon dioxide (CO2) as soil organic carbon can help mitigate climate change. A recent research led by Tsinghua University and Cornell University revealed that microorganisms are by far the most influential factor in soil carbon ...
Mangroves, as one of the ecosystems with the highest soil carbon density and carbon fixation rate in the world, have extremely high value for ecological service. Affected by human activities, the mangrove area is rapidly decreasing at a rate of 1-2% per year. In order to restore the ecological function of mangroves, China and many other countries have carried out a large number of ecological re...
How well can current mainstream LSMs simulate the global land-atmosphere interaction? Here’s some information~ Among Earth system models, the simulation ability of land surface models (LSMs) on global land-atmosphere interaction significantly affects the accuracy of weather and climate forecast. However, due to the lack of global observation data, it is difficult to evaluate the simulation a...
The National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, as a research paper relational database, has recently published “A global daily soil moisture dataset derived from Chinese FengYun-3B Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) (2010–2019) (https://doi.org/10.11888/Terre.tpdc.271954) co-developed by Associate Professor Lu Hui’s team of the Department of Earth System Science (DESS), Tsinghua University and Res...
