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SCOR-IOC Advisory Panel on Ocean CO2

Chair: Douglas Wallace (Germany)

Panel Members
 Leif Anderson (Sweden)
Jacqueline Boutin (France)
Kenneth Caldeira (USA)
Andrew Dickson (USA)
Roger Francey (Australia)
Michel Frankignoulle (Belgium)
Peter Haugan (Norway)
Dileep Kumar (India)
Kitack Lee (Republic of Korea)
Corinne Le Quéré (Germany)
Yukihiro Nojiri (Japan)
Andrew Watson (UK)

Sponsors: SCOR, IOC

Date Approved: 2000

Date Disbanded:

General Terms of Reference

  1. Advise the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) project, and the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC) on observations, data management, and modeling needed for studies of the global carbon cycle.
  2. Provide an international forum for initiatives to promote high-quality observations needed to understand the ocean component of the global carbon cycle.

Specific Terms of Reference

  1. Identify gaps and weak links in the present carbon cycle observation system that compromise the ability to understand and predict global change. 
  2. Identify opportunities that can be used to continue development of such an observing system (e.g., collaboration with other global observing systems). 
  3. Aid the synthesis of results from JGOFS and other projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) with respect to marine CO2 observations, data management, and modeling by:
  1. initiating and facilitating the assembly of the necessary databases, 
  2. interacting with ocean modelers to identify the weaknesses and encourage appropriate uses of ocean carbon cycle data, and 
  3. encouraging and facilitating the collaborative analysis of CO2 data with other carbon cycle and supporting data sets.
  1. Maintain a watching brief to advise IOC and SCOR on CO2 sequestration in the ocean. 
  2. Advise GOOS and OOPC on technology development needed to improve future capacity for carbon cycle monitoring. 
  3. Advise GOOS and OOPC on the observational strategies needed to assess, model, and predict global ocean CO2 fluxes.

Meetings:
#1—4-6 September 2000
Paris, France

#2—9 February 2002
Honolulu, Hawaii (USA)

Products: Report of First Session

Website for Activity: http://www.ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/co2panel/

Questions or Comments?
Please contact SCOR.