The Carbon and Climate Working Group held planning meetings in March and May 1998. A workshop was held in August 1998, in Westminster, Colorado, to solicit input from the scientific community, and from interested Federal agencies. The resulting integrated carbon cycle research plan addressing oceanic, atmospheric and terrestrial components is now available. The completed science plan, titled "A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan", is available in hard copy from:
U.S. Global Change Research Program 400 Virginia Avenue, SW Suite 750 Washington, DC 20024 USA phone: (202) 488-8630 fax: (202) 488-8681The science plan can be downloaded in PDF format here as follows:
Single Complete Document (1.5 MB)
In Sections:
Front
Cover (280 kb)
Contents and Executive Summary (208 kb)
Chapter 1: Introduction (48 kb)
Rationale
Outline of the Research Program
Structure of the Plan
Chapter 2: The Past and Present Carbon Cycle
(276 kb)
The Terrestrial Carbon Sink
The Ocean Carbon Sink
Land Use
Chapter 3: Predicting the Future Carbon Cycle
(180 kb)
Projecting Future Atmospheric CO2
Concentrations
Management Strategies
Chapter 4: An Integrated Carbon Cycle Science
Program (368 kb)
Goal 1: Understanding the Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial
Carbon Sink
Goal 2: Understanding the Ocean Carbon Sink
Goal 3: Assessing the Role of Land Use
Goal 4: Improving Projections of Future Atmospheric
CO2
Goal 5: Evaluating Management Strategies
Observing and Discovering
Expected Results
Chapter 5: Summary of Program Elements and
Resource Requirements (160 kb)
Mapping of Program Elements to CCSP Goals
Chapter 6: Program Implementation and Critical
Partnerships (56 kb)
Implementation Principles
Proposed Program Management Structure
Critical Partnerships
Bibliography, Acronyms and Abbreviations (60
kb)
Back Cover (28 kb)
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