ITMS Germany

Welcome to the ITMS Project

ITMS (“Integriertes Treibhausgas-Monitoringsystem für Deutschland“ in English as “Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany”) is a BMBF (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung)-funded project designed to enable Germany to operationally monitor the sources and sinks of the three most important long-lived greenhouse gases (GHG) CO₂, CH₄, N₂O via independent measurements. The collaborative project will support Data-driven GHG monitoring against "alternative facts" and "fake news" and in the long term result in the establishment of an operational GHG data assimilation service at the DWD (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

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Why the Daily CO₂ Cycle Matters for Climate Models

April 15, 2025

Effective climate policies require accurate carbon flux estimates, to inform emission reduction strategies and to support international agreements like the Paris Agreement. Munassar and colleagues showed in a recent study that overlooking the daily cycle of the biosphere’s “breathing” can lead to over- or underestimations in the regional carbon budgets as derived from inversion modelling.

Group picture of the workshop participants for agricultural management in greenhouse gas modelling.

Modeling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture: Experts Meet for Knowledge Exchange

April 02, 2025

In order to correctly model greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, a deeper understanding of agricultural management is required. Experts from the agricultural sector came together at the workshop on 2 April 2025 at the Freie Universität Berlin to improve and harmonise the assumptions for agricultural management in Germany.