Climate Change Studies Continue in the University

14:03, May 4, 2018

Scientists of the University received a grant from the Russian Science Foundation

The list of winners of the contest of the Russian Science Foundation in 2018 includes the scientists of the university. The scientific group of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Physics of UrFU Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics won a grant on the project "Methods for solving ill-posed inverse problems for sounding the atmosphere for the recovery of isotope tracers of water and carbon cycles".

The project is implemented in collaboration with the scientists of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics of the Ural Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The goal of the project is the development of initial methods and algorithms for solving inverse problems that allow using data from both satellites and ground stations.

 ‘Creation of innovative tools based on original methods and algorithms will allow us to advance in the field of solving problems of global monitoring of isotope tracers of the water and carbon cycles of the Earth's climate system,’ says Vyacheslav Zakharov, head of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Physics. ‘Data on the relative content of isotopologues of the water molecule in the atmosphere carry unique information about the atmospheric hydrological cycle and the peculiarities of the transport of latent heat from the ocean to land and from the equator to the poles. Global monitoring will enable us to share the contribution of natural and anthropogenic sources of emissions of key greenhouse gases, namely carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere.’

Scientists of the university and institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences intend to develop research in the next two years to simulate the transfer of radiation from the thermal and near infrared ranges in a cloudless atmosphere for different latitudes, seasons and types of underlying surface.

It is also planned to develop original methods and algorithms for solving inverse problems of remote sensing of the atmosphere using data from a ground-based IR Fourier spectrometer in the Kourovka Observatory, as well as data from existing and future Russian and Japanese satellites.