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Joint IMBER/SOLAS Carbon Research
Working Group
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What is new?
June 09: Special issue Surface Ocean CO2 Variability and Vulnerabilities, Volume 56, Numbers 8–10, 2009 Guest Editors: Sylvie Roy, Nicolas Metzl, BronteTilbrook, Scott Doney, Richard Feely, Dorothee Bakker, and Corinne Le Quere. |
Feb 09: The Monaco Declaration and Research Priorities Report Released 30 January at ASLO.
More than 150 scientists from 26 countries are calling for immediate action by policymakers to reduce CO2 emissions sharply to avoid possible widespread and severe damage to marine ecosystems from ocean acidification. This warning comes in The Monaco Declaration and the Research Priorities Report developed at the 2nd international symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World, to be released during a press conference on Friday, 30 January, at the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Conference in Nice.
For more information: The Monaco Declaration and the Research Priorities Report are available on-line at www.ocean-acidification.net. |
Oct 08: A SIC! Group meeting is being planned for October 2008, in conjunction with the Ocean in High CO2 Symposium in Monaco. |
Global Ocean Shipbased Hydrographic Investigations Panel (GO_SHIP)
The Global Ocean Shipbased Hydrographic Investigations Panel (GO_SHIP) was formed. This group will bring together interests from physical hydrography, carbon, biogeochemistry, Argo, OceanSITES, and other users and collectors of hydrographic data, to develop guidelines and advice for the development of a globally coordinated network of sustained ship-based hydrographic sections that will become an integral component of the ocean observing system. The approved membership of the group is: Masao Fukasawa (JAMSTEC), Bernadette Sloyan (CSIRO), Greg Johnson (NOAA PMEL), Niki Gruber (ETHZ), Chris Sabine (NOAA PMEL), and Arne Koertzinger / Toste Tanhua (IFM-GEOMAR). The terms of reference for the group include: (I)To develop the scientific justification and general strategy for a ship-based repeat hydrography network, building on existing programs and future plans, that will constitute the core global network, post-CLIVAR; (II) To develop guidelines for a single global information and data center for ship-based repeat hydrography; (III) To review and provide guidance on the need to update the WOCE hydrographic manual, including a review and update of data quality control issues. The group held its first meeting during the PICES 16th Annual Meeting, November 1-2, 2007 in Victoria. The group is developing a “blueprint” for a coordinated network of ship-based repeat hydrography that will be circulated widely for consultation and consensus on the way forward. Further info |
 !!! June 08: Report published
Report on utilizing remote sensing and profiling float data to constrain air-sea CO2 fluxes in the North Atlantic.
Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger, 2008: The CO2 air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp. READ the REPORT
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16-17 June 08: SOCAT Meeting (UNESCO, Paris, France)
Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) Project At the “Surface Ocean CO2 Variability and Vulnerability” workshop in April 2007, co-sponsored by IOCCP, SOLAS, IMBER, and the Global Carbon Project, participants agreed to establish a standard global surface CO2 data set that would bring together, in a common format, all publicly available surface CO2 data. Further information. READ the REPORT.
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March 08: New web site launched : CARBON-OPS website
CARBON-OPS is a UK project which aims to develop an automated supply chain of ocean surface and atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements from selected UK research ships to operational end-users.
Further information at: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/carbon-ops/
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March 08: The Sub-group on Surface Ocean System is preparing a Deep-Sea Research II special Issue. This volume will include 14 manuscripts contributed by the Surface Ocean pCO2 Vulnerability and Variability Workshop that was held in Paris, on April 11-14, 2007. Guest editors of this volume are Nicolas Metzl, Bronte Tilbrook, Corinne Lequéré, Dorothee Bakker, Richard Feely, Scott Doney and Sylvie Roy. Publication is planned for the fall of 2008.
At the “Surface Ocean CO2 Variability and Vulnerability” workshop in April 2007, participants agreed to establish a standard global surface CO2 data set that would bring together, in a common format, all publicly available surface CO2 data. This data set will serve as a foundation upon which the community will continue to build in the future, based on agreed data and metadata formats and quality-control procedures. In December, a small group met to agree on 1st level Quality Control procedures, and it was agreed that the IOCCP and the SIC group should organize a small workshop to develop the 2nd level QC procedures and to discuss the coordination of regional scientific groups. This “Surface Ocean CO2 ATlas” project (SOCAT) workshop will scheduled for 16-17 June, in Paris, and UNESCO headquarters. The meeting will be chaired by Dorothee Bakker.
Nicolas Gruber from the Sub-Group on Interior Ocean submitted a proposal to organise a scientific conference on “DECADAL VARIATIONS OF THE OCEAN’S INTERIOR CARBON CYCLE: SYNTHESIS AND VULNERABILITIES” at the “Centro Stefano Franscini” in “Monte Veritā, Switzerland in 2009. Preliminary plan is to have plenary talks, a poster session, and working groups over 4 days.
A SIC! Group meeting is being planned for October 2008, in conjunction with the Ocean in High CO2 Symposium to be held in Monaco on October 6-8th, 2008.
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