Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Workshop held August 19-21, 2014, Woods Hole, MA
Description:
Relative to their surface area, continental margins represent some of the largest carbon
fluxes in the global ocean, but sparse and sporadic sampling in space and time makes
these systems difficult to characterize and quantify. Recognizing the importance of
continental margins to the overall North American carbon budget, terrestrial and marine
carbon cycle scientists have been collaborating on a series of synthesis, carbon budgeting,
and modeling exercises for coastal regions of North America, which include the Gulf of
Mexico, the Laurentian Great Lakes (LGL), and the coastal waters of the Atlantic,
Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. The Coastal CARbon Synthesis (CCARS) workshops and
research activities have been conducted over the past several years as a partner activity
between the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program and the North
American Carbon Program (NACP) to synthesize existing data and improve quantitative
assessments of the North American carbon budget.
Description:
The authors of this science plan wish to acknowledge the generous support of NASA
(NNX10AU78G) and NSF (OCE-1107285) for all of the CCARS activities, including a
kickoff meeting (December 2010), a series of regional workshops (Atlantic coast, Gulf of
Mexico, Pacific coast), and the final community workshop (August 2014).
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
Type:
Working Paper
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