Abstract
Eastern US Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Integrating Models, Data Assimilation, and Analysis
Highlights
T h e pa s t tw odecades have seen the development of large multidisciplinary oceanographic programs that focus on understanding carbon cycling processes in coastal and oceanic environments
Carbon cycling in the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) and South Atlantic Bight (SAB) continental shelves and upper slope has been studied for 30 years in a number of programs sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE, 1970s and 1980s)
In the MAB, the Shelf Edge Exchange Processes (SEEP) experiments I and II (1983–1989) and the Ocean Margins Program (OMP) experiment (1994–1996) provided insight into biogeochemical processes, with major findings reported in special issues of Continental Shelf Research (1988, 8[5–7]) and Deep-Sea Research Part II (1994, 41[2–3]; 2002, 49[20])
Summary
T h e pa s t tw odecades have seen the development of large multidisciplinary oceanographic programs that focus on understanding carbon cycling processes in coastal and oceanic environments. Gov/documents/occc_is_2004.pdf ]): future ocean carbon cycle research programs should promote close collaborations among scientists with expertise in measurement, data analysis, and numerical modeling at every stage of development—formative stages of hypothesis building, planning and execution of field programs, data analysis, numerical modeling, and synthesis. The advantages of this collaborative approach for numerical model development are clear: data are collected with algorithm development in mind, and quantitative models are based on the best current understanding. The fruitful scientific collaborations have come with a steep learning curve
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