Dear OCB Colleagues,

We have been successful in proposing a special session at the upcoming 
2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 
(20-24/2/2012) to highlight the recent advances in observing and 
modeling the changes in the ocean carbon cycle. Please consider 
submitting an abstract at: http://www.sgmeet.com/osm2012/ Abstract 
submission deadline is 23:59 pm Central Daylight Time on October 7th, 
2011

-- best regards

   Nicolas Gruber, Dorothee Bakker, Chris Sabine, and Toste Tanhua

 

074: THE CHANGING OCEAN CARBON CYCLE: DATA SYNTHESES, ANALYSES AND 
MODELING
Organizers: Nicolas Gruber, ETH Zurich, nicolas.gruber@env.ethz.ch; 
Dorothee Bakker, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 
D.Bakker@uea.ac.uk; Chris Sabine, NOAA PMEL, Seattle, Chris.Sabine@noaa.gov;
Toste Tanhua, IfM-Geomar, Kiel, ttanhua@ifm-geomar.de

The ocean carbon cycle is changing at a rate whose magnitude and 
pattern we are only beginning to document, quantify, and understand. 
The uptake of anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere, climate 
fluctuations as well as long-term trends in ocean circulation and 
biology have led already to substantial changes in the ocean carbon 
cycle, with potentially larger changes looming ahead. In the last 
decade, substantial efforts have been undertaken to measure these 
changes, and a number of projects are underway to synthesize them and 
to put them into the context of climate variability and change (e.g. 
international synthesis activities associated with the SOLAS-IMBER 
carbon working groups and IOCCP, including SOCAT, CARINA and PACIFICA, 
for example, but also those undertaken in the context of RECCAP). This 
session aims to bring together the scientists working on these 
synthesis projects, but is open to all other scientists who are 
interested in developing an integrated view of how the ocean carbon 
cycle has changed in the recent decades. Of interest are data 
syntheses, analyses and modeling studies focusing on air-sea CO2 
fluxes, changes in ocean surface and interior carbon properties, and 
how the changes in these realms are connected to each other. (4, 8, 16)