carboocean 3 rd annual meeting 4-7 december, bremen overview of international carbon projects...

CARBOOCEAN 3rd Annual Meeting

4-7 December, Bremen

Overview of International Carbon Projects

1. Carbon in International Projects

2. Coordinating National and Regional Projects

3. Data Products and Legacy Issues

Part 1: Carbon in International Programmes

Strategy documents:

The Second Report on the Adequacy of the Global Observing Systems for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (April 2003)

Implementation Plan for the Global Observing System for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (November 2004)

Integrated Global Carbon Observations Theme (April 2004)

SOLAS/IMBER

Carbon GroupSOLAS

IMBER/

LOICZ

The International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project

is a communication and coordination service for the

ocean carbon community


IOCCP.ORG Sponsors: UNESCO-IOC | SCOR

Part 2: Coordinating National and Regional Projects

Africa - CarboAfrica

Amazonia – large-scale biosphere-atmosphere experiment; forest inventory network

Australia – CSIRO biosphere group; national carbon accounting system

Canada – Biological capital research partnership programme

China – Study on carbon budget for ecosystems of China

Europe – CarboEurope; Geoland carbon observatory; Carbo-North (US, northern Europe, Russia)

India – terrestrial carbon budget of India project

Japan – advanced land observation satellite/ Kyoto and carbon initiative

Mexico – Mexican carbon cycle programme

New Zealand – greenhouse gas and carbon sinks programme

Russia and Northern Eurasia – northern eurasia earth science partnership initiative

Southeast Asia – CarboPEAT tropical peatlands project

United Kingdom – land use change forestry sector of GHG inventory; quantifying and understanding the earth system (QUEST)

United States – North American Carbon Program; Carbon Cycle Science Program; US-China Carbon Consortium; Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gas Group.







National and Regional Projects

AfricaAmazoniaAustraliaCanadaChinaEuropeIndiaJapanMexicoNew ZealandRussia / Northern EurasiaSoutheast AsiaUnited KingdomUnited States

Science

Global Carbon Project

•Patterns and variability

•Processes and interactions

•Carbon management

•High-level syntheses

Observations

Integrated Global Carbon Observations (IGCO)P.Ciais, B.Moore, W.Steffen, M.Hood, S.Quegan, J.Cihlar, M.Raupach, J.Tschirley, G.Inoue, S.Doney, C.Heinze, C.Sabine, K.Hibbard, D.Schulze, M.Heimann, A.Chedin, P.Monfray, A.Watson, C.LeQuere, P.Tans, H.Dolman, R.Valentini, O.Arino, J.Townshend,G.Seufert, C.Field, T.Igarashi, C.Goodale, A.Nobre, D.Crisp, D.Baldocchi, S.Denning, I.Rasool, W.Cramer, R.Francey, D.Wickland.

For the IGOS Partnership – Global Obs Systems, UN sponsors, Satellite agencies, WCRP and IGBP.

“IGCO at GCP”

Officially now part of GEO

1st Initiative: EU FP7: Coordination Action Carbon Observation System (COCOS)







COCOS

Lead: Han Dolman (Vrije Uni., Netherlands)

Partners:MPI-BGCUiBUni TusciaIfM-GEOMARUni LiegeLSCE (CEA & CNRS) AWIUEAFAOUNESCO-IOC

Concept:

Understanding and managing the global carbon cycle can only be met through a coordinated set of international activities, research, observations, and assessments.

Developing new common methodologies, standards, data management systems and protocols will increase the cost-efficiency of European (and global) carbon observations by avoiding duplication, and facilitating data sharing.

Coordination action around 2 main lines: improve the exchange of data sets between separate projects and use data sets together with other continental and basin scale projects and programmes.







Work Package 5: Filling in gaps in data of vulnerable global carbon pools and fluxes in the ocean

Lead: AWI; Partners: UiB, IfM-GEOMAR, UEA, UNESCO-IOC, FAO, and international partners

Objectives:

1. To establish approaches for assessing variations in gross carbon export fluxes through improved linkage of inverse methods, sediment trap data, satellite ocean color data products and in-situ data for ocean DIC, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen

2. To identify and link data sources suited to identification of changes in anthropogenic carbon sinks due to changes in ocean circulation and stratification. (Task 5.2 “Co-location of physical oceanography and carbon cycle data”; lead = UiB, with IOCCP and regional /national programmes)






Part 3: Data Products and Legacy Issues

Observations – CarboOcean established strong foundations for the EU component of sustained observing systems (particularly surface CO2)

• Continue in COCOS / IGCO for collaborations and international support (national / regional leverage).

• Emphasize technology development so that systems are cheaper and do not require significant PI investment; will also permit real-time data release.

Data synthesis activities – CarboOcean has taken the lead in both surface ocean pCO2 and ocean interior synthesis activities for the international community, in full cooperation with regional and international partners (US, Japan, CDIAC, WDC-Mare, etc).

• Finalize syntheses / products – surface ocean CO2 global data base; ocean interior synthesis joint with physical oceanographic community.

• Continue in other EU and international collaborations as D.A.C. for ocean carbon variables ?






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