Global climate change now has the world's attention. The elucidation of the circulation of carbon, water and other masses and their budgets in various land ecosystems is an important task. In studies of climate change, improving the accuracy of land-surface hydrology models and verifying them against observed data are important problems to be solved. A scheme to estimate the global land carbon balance from satellite observations has been established. Verification by land observations is essential.
Moreover, in the Kyoto protocol, it has been agreed that the amount of carbon fixed in forest in each country shall be deducted from her reduction target. Evaluation of greenhouse gas budgets based on scientific knowledge therefore has become an important and urgent issue.
Studies to accurately determine and model the mass exchange process between the land surface, land ecosystems and the atmosphere are indispensable. High-precision, long-term data on carbon dioxide, water vapor and heat flux from various land surfaces and ecosystems are becoming more and more important. The collection of data demands cooperation among researchers in fields as various as micrometeorology, water management, hydrology, agro-meteorology, forestry and plant ecology, and thus requires analysis of data on variables including atmosphere, vegetation and soil condition.
To estimate global mass balances, results must be scaled up from plot-scale observations. Understanding the results from each observation site in relation to responses at the land ecosystem scale demands the integration of many observations from various types of ecosystems around the world. Thus, flux observations from various ecosystems and land surfaces are important.
| October | 2007 | AsiaFlux Workshop 2007 - International Workshop on Advanced Flux Network and Flux Evaluation - |
| July | 2007 | AsiaFlux Training Course 2007 |
| November | 2006 | International Workshop on flux Estimation over Diverse Terrestrial Ecosysytems in Asia -AsiaFlux Workshop 2006- |
| August | 2006 | AsiaFlux Training Course 2006 |
| August | 2005 | AsiaFlux Workshop 2005 |
| August | 2003 | International Workshop on Flux Observation Reseach in Asia |
| March | 2002 | The first issue of AsiaFlux Newsletter |
| October | 2001 | The 2nd International Workshop on Advanced Flux Network and Flux Evaluation |
| August | 2000 | International Workshop on Advanced Flux Network and Flux Evaluation |
| September | 1999 | Establishment of AsiaFlux |