IOCCP'ORG

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IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
A communication and coordination service for the
international ocean carbon community.
IOCCP 2005 Chair Chris Sabine
(US) Repeat Hydrography Masao Fukasawa
(Japan) Underway pCO2 Bronte Tilbrook
(Australia) Time series networks Nick Bates
(Bermuda) Remote Sensing / ModellingCyril
Moulin (France) Coastal observations Helmuth
Thomas (Canada) Historical Data Sets Dorothee
Bakker (UK) Process Studies Cindy Lee
(US) SOLAS Truls Johannessen (Norway) IMBER
Arne Koertzinger (Germany) Project Coordinators
Maria Hood and Roger Dargaville

• Initiated in 2003 as a pilot project of the SCOR
  IOC CO2 Panel and the Global Carbon Project
• To address global ocean CO2 uptake and air-sea
  fluxes requires a sustained, coordinated
  international effort
• There is a an enormous amount of work being done
  at national, regional, and global levels
• To move forward together, we need

• Common global research goals and strategies to
  achieve them
• A continuously-updated global compilation of
  observation programs
• An international forum to address compatibility
  / comparability issues to ensure that results
  from individual efforts can be combined
• Global and basin synthesis groups that compile
  data and produce science

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IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
A communication and coordination service for the
international ocean carbon community.
Products and Services of the IOCCP maps and
tables of ongoing and planned activities
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IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
A communication and coordination service for the
international ocean carbon community.
Products and Services of the IOCCP targeted
workshops / international agreements

• The IOCCP brings together the community to
  analyze this information to determine
• Is the coverage from this combined network
  sufficient to meet research needs for basin and
  global scale issues? If not, what needs to be
  done?
• Are data from individual activities comparable?
  (standards, reference materials, qc/qa
  procedures, best practices, etc.)
• Are the data management practices of each
  program compatible, and are there mechanisms in
  place to facilitate data sharing and data
  synthesis activities between programs?

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IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
IOCCP.ORG
Sponsors UNESCO-IOC SCOR
A communication and coordination service for the
international ocean carbon community.
Products and Services of the IOCCP Ocean Carbon
Directory
On-line information database and communications
network for ocean carbon research and
observations regular e-news bulletins to gt 150
scientists. WWW.IOCCP.ORG