Part 1: Carbon in International Programmes

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Part 1 Carbon in International Programmes
SOLAS
SOLAS/IMBER Carbon Group
IMBER/ LOICZ
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)
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Part 2 Coordinating National and Regional
Projects
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.
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
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Part 2 Coordinating National and Regional
Projects

• 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.
National and Regional Projects AfricaAmazoniaAus
traliaCanadaChinaEuropeIndiaJapanMexicoNew
ZealandRussia / Northern EurasiaSoutheast
AsiaUnited KingdomUnited States
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Part 2 Coordinating National and Regional
Projects
COCOS Lead Han Dolman (Vrije Uni.,
Netherlands) PartnersMPI-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. Developin
g 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.
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Part 2 Coordinating National and Regional
Projects

• 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
• 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)

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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 ?