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Abstract Location ID: 8

A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program

Robert Cook, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, cookrb@ornl.gov (Presenting)
W. Mac Post, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, postwmiii@ornl.gov
Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, thorntonpe@ornl.gov
Deborah Huntzinger, University of Michigan, dnhuntzi@umich.edu
Dan Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ricciutodm@ornl.gov
Andrew Jacobson, NOAA, andy.jacobson@noaa.gov
Kevin Schaeffer, National Snow and Ice Data Center, kevin.schaefer@nsidc.org
Kenneth Davis, Pennsylvania State University, davis@meteo.psu.edu
Michele Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, thorntonmm@ornl.gov
Lisa Olsen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, olsenlm@ornl.gov
Barbara L. Jacson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, jacksonbl@ornl.gov

The Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center (MAST-DC) supports the North American Carbon Program (NACP) by providing data products and data management services needed for modeling and synthesis activities. The NACP Science Plan calls for an unprecedented level of coordination among observational, experimental, and modeling efforts for the terrestrial and atmospheric components of the carbon cycle. MAST‐DC assembles and distributes critical carbon flux and biomass observations, along with model input and output data for ecosystem process (bottom‐up) and inverse (top‐down) modeling. In close collaboration with the NACP community, MAST-DC will provide a source of spatially explicit data products of carbon stocks in soils, forests, and crops and of carbon sources and sinks in common grids, projections, and formats, using standard parameter names and units. This presentation will focus on activities associated with the Site and Regional Interim Synthesis projects and with the multi-scale synthesis and intercomparison project (see Debbie Huntzinger's poster)

Presentation Type:   Poster

Poster Session:  Data Records and Systems

NASA TE Funded Awards Represented:

  • Cook, Robe
    A Modeling and Synthesis Thematic Data Center for the North American Carbon Program
  • Michalak, An
    The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project

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