Session 1 |
| | State of the Science: The Role of the Carbon Cycle in the Earth System |
| | Organizers: Lisa Dilling, NOAA/OAR, Silver Springs, MD; Tony J. Busalacchi, ESSIC, University of Maryland
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Carbon-Climate interaction as a first-order source of uncertainty in future climate
Scott Denning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | Atmospheric observations of the carbon cycle and the North American Carbon Program
Pieter P. Tans, NOAA/CMDL, Boulder, CO |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | The North American Carbon Program and AmeriFlux: Understanding carbon sources and sinks at multiple scales
Beverly E. Law, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | Tradeoffs between measurement accuracy and cost, vertical and horizontal sampling density, and signal strength and variability in an expanded CO2 observing network
Britton Stephens, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Schimel, D. Baker, R. Dargaville, S. Aulenbach, J. Oxelson, D. Brown, and C. S. I. Participants |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
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| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | Data assimilation for carbon cycle studies
David Schimel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. A. Hibbard and D. Baker |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6 | The changing carbon cycle: contribution from climate variability
Ning Zeng, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Murtugudde and J. Christian |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Toward a Comprehensive Carbon Budget for North America: Potential Applications of Adjoint Methods with Diverse Datasets
Arlyn Andrews, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 11:30 AM | 1.8 | Long-term changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide
Francisco P. Chavez, MBARI, Moss Landing, CA; and S. C. Wofsy |
| 11:45 AM | 1.9 | The role of the equatorial Pacific on interannual and interdecadal variations of ocean-atmosphere CO2 fluxes
Richard A. Feely, NOAA/ERL/PMEL, Seattle, WA; and F. Chai, F. Chavez, M. J. McPhaden, and R. Wanninkhof |