Energia i gospodarka · 24/10/1994

Energy Research Financial Assistance Program Notice 95-04: Terrestrial Carbon Process Research of the Global Change Program

The Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER) of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) hereby announces its interest in receiving applications to support research and analysis of ``terrestrial carbon processes'' (TCP) that affect changes of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentration. This notice is the second cycle of solicitations for refocused DOE research on terrestrial carbon that was formerly carried out on the global carbon cycle, and on the response of vegetation to CO 2. The refocused research supports the Department's Global Change Research Program (specifically climate change), the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and the Administration's goals to understand and mitigate the rise in greenhouse gases. This notice requests grant applications for research that will (i) Advance the scientific understanding of terrestrial processes regulating carbon balance of ecosystems that have a major influence on atmospheric CO 2 concentration; (ii) evaluate changes of carbon quantities of ecosystems in relation to the rising concentration of atmospheric CO 2, altered temperature and precipitation regimes, including key interactions of t