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SMP Central Program Elements
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1.
Global and regional mass balances: synthesis of improved estimates of
natural
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and
anthropogenic carbon
inventories and of fluxes of carbon and related
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biologically active chemical substances.
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2. Mechanistic controls of
local carbon balances: identification and modeling
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of
the principal processes that control within-ocean and ocean-atmosphere
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partitioning
of carbon and related biologically active chemical substances, with
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a
view towards developing regional and global syntheses and models.
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3.
Extrapolation, monitoring, and prediction: development and application of
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methods
that will allow knowledge gained on small spatial and temporal scales
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to be
scaled to seasonal, annual, and
interannual time scales and to regional
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and
global spatial scales; and development and application of methods that will
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improve
our ability to monitor and predict the role of oceanic processes in
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determining
the partitioning of carbon between the ocean and atmosphere and
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the
resulting feedback to the climate system.
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