Biogeoscience observing system deluge: Are we ready for the flood?
Abstract
From the early days of the International Geophysical Year to the coming promise of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), we have experienced exponential growth in biogeoscience observing systems in the past half-century. We now live in unprecedented times for investigating the biosphere and its sustainability. The successful long-term observing systems all evolved from different starting points, motivations, funding availability, and community politics. All have contributed immensely to the scientific literature. But how do we know they monitor the right quantities in the optimal places? And how do we know our students and scientific workforce have the capacity to concoct new answers to age-old questions with these data and imagine future observation networks? I don't have all the answers, but this presentation will guide a discussion of a journey past and present, particularly in the domain of land-atmosphere gas exchange. I will also discuss recent advances in observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs) to help develop more integrated and useful networks that closes the model-observation feedback loop, including a recent example from the Chequamegon Heterogeneous Ecosystem Energy-balance Study Enabled by a High-Density Extensive Array of Detectors (CHEESEHEAD19) experiment.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.B14B..02D
- Keywords:
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- 0498 General or miscellaneous;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES