The memorandum of understanding with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) includes the Natural Environment Research Council - NERC, that funds independent environmental research in the United Kingdom. The priorities provide a focus for the marine, polar, atmospheric, earth, terrestrial and freshwater science communities. The research is often multidisciplinary and in collaboration with other national and international partners.
Increasing supercomputer power has allowed climate projections to be run at a resolution, with kilometre-scale grid spacing. In this high resolution, convection-permitting models (CPMs) allow the organised vertical transport of heat and moisture in the atmosphere to be represented explicitly on the model grid, without the need for parameterisation based on empirical relationships. CPMs ha…
Fires are increasing in Amazonia, transforming C storage. The evaluation of fire effects has traditionally focussed on aboveground C. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) can store half of total tropical forest C 19 and the impact of fire on existing SOC and the fate of new charcoal (pyrogenic C; PyC) is unknown. SOC loss, transformation and gain may have important implications for the C ba…
Ocean circulation is driven by water masses with different densities. Much of this is generated at the ocean-continent boundary, where near landlocked seas have a restricted connection with the global ocean, allowing them to evolve a different temperature or salinity. These marginal basins often form when continental plates coalesce - the Mediterranean today is a good example of this - or…
GreenCities is a new multidisciplinary partnership between the UK and Brazil. The collaboration focuses on key knowledge gaps in our understanding of how urban greenspace provides cooling in humid tropical regions. It builds on world-leading Brazilian expertise in urban eddy covariance monitoring and UK expertise in ecosystem services modelling and citizen science engagement. This partner…
Net zero carbon emission technologies worldwide include carbon capture and storage (CCS). Safe geological storage is essential to enable the energy transition. NERC-FAPESP EHMPRES will stablish a new collaboration between world-leading experts in CO2 storage reservoir characterization from the NOC and the IEE-RCGI/USP. This international collaboration will develop novel capabilities in un…
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In the Amazon, land use change impacts extend beyond converted agricultural landscapes. Human disruption severely affects the regional water cycle, worsening climate extremes like prolonged droughts. Evident in the deforestation arc (Cerrado-Amazon transition) amidst agricultural frontier expansion, this process is degrading nearby primary forests, heightening forest flammability, and inc…
To create the geo-spatial database these project will first compile the data on SOC and its fractions produced by the project and from the literature review. As climatic, topographic, fire regime, biomass, land cover and soil characteristics vary across Amazonian regions and this variation can be reflected in the region's SOC patterns, the project will additionally compile continuous spat…
Restoration initiatives of degraded areas in the Cerrado are essential for recovering biodiversity and various ecosystem services. Restoration processes are closely related to the knowledge and information acquired about the ecosystem intended to be restored. In other words, data on the richness, diversity, and distribution of typical species found in reference ecosystems are essential to…
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