NASA's Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Focus Area
Abstract
NASA's Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems (CCE) Focus Area develops and implements a research program that makes use of a mix of space-, airborne-, and surface based measurements together with integrative models to study the distribution of carbon-containing fluxes and reservoirs within the Earth system, emphasizing both human-induced and naturally-occurring processes. The space-based perspective is particularly important for advancing our knowledge of the distributions and transformations of carbon in all its forms, and has been significantly advanced in recent years through launch of missions and instruments such as ECOSTREE, GEDI, and OCO-3, as well as integrated field campaigns such as ABoVE, EXPORTS, and CARVE. NASA's programs include those in terrestrial ecology, ocean biology and biogeochemistry, land cover/land use change, and biodiversity, as well as related areas of atmospheric composition. In this talk a review of recent programmatic and scientific highlights, accomplishments, and plans for the future will be reviewed.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019AGUFM.B51E..05K
- Keywords:
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- 0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0428 Carbon cycling;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 1615 Biogeochemical cycles;
- processes;
- and modeling;
- GLOBAL CHANGE