Achievement of SMP Goals & Objectives??
| Dave Siegel | |
| University of California, Santa Barbara |
Has U.S. JGOFS SMP been effective??
| PI-based synthesis of project data is a new idea | |
| Integrating modelers and scientists… | |
| The agencies have supported SMP in a big way ($’s ~ U.S. JGOFS process study) | |
| Can we show SMP’s effectiveness??? |
| 1995: U.S. JGOFS SMP steering committee formed | |
| 1996: Durham meeting | |
| 1997: Implementation report published & first PI meeting | |
| 2003: Lights out… |
| Synthesize natural/anthropogenic in/organic carbon inventories & fluxes | |
| Identify & quantify processes controlling the partitioning among carbon reservoirs | |
| Assess processes leading to spatial/temporal variability in carbon partitioning | |
| Scale results to longer time & larger spatial domains | |
| Improve capabilities for monitoring & prediction of carbon partitioning |
| Global and regional mass balances | ||
| Synthesis of natural/anthropogenic carbon inventories & budgets (& related substances) | ||
| Mechanistic controls on local carbon balances | ||
| Identify & model processes controlling within-ocean & ocean-atmosphere partitioning of carbon (& related …) | ||
| Extrapolation, monitoring & prediction | ||
| Scale local results to regional/global & long-time scales | ||
| Develop & apply accurate prediction capabilities | ||