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Synthesis and Planning Documents

Please submit OCB-relevant publications to Heather Benway

• Assessing Requirements for Sustained Ocean Color Research and Operations (2011)

• Bender, M. et al. (2002). A large-scale CO2 observing plan: In situ oceans and atmosphere (LSCOP). A Report of the In Situ Large-Scale CO2 Observations Working Group. A Contribution to the Implementation of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. Seattle, WA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
• Benway, H. M., Doney, S. C., and the OCB Scientific Steering Committee (2010). OCB Policies and Procedures: A community guide on OCB's programmatic mission, objectives, and operating procedures. 17 pp.
• Birdsey, R., N. Bates, M. Behrenfeld, K. Davis, S.C. Doney, R. Feely, D. Hansell, L. Heath, E. Kasischke, H. Kheshgi, B. Law, C. Lee, A.D. McGuire, P. Raymond, and C.J. Tucke (2009). Carbon cycle observations: gaps threaten climate mitigation policies, EOS Trans. American Geophys. Union 90(34), 292-293.
• Canadell, J. G. (Ed.) (2010). Special issue: Carbon and nitrogen cycles. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2(4), 209-312.
• Carbon Cycle Science working group (2009). USGCRP/CCSP Strategic Planning Building Block, Global Carbon Cycle, 6 pages.
• Ciais, P., Dolman, A.J., Dargaville, R., Barrie, L., Bombelli, A., Butler, J., Canadell, P., Moriyama, T. (2010). Geo Carbon Strategy Geo Secretariat Geneva,/FAO, Rome, 48 pp.
• Committee on Strategic Advice on the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (2009). Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, National Research Council Report (ISBN: 0-309-13174-X), 178 pages.
• Dhakal, S., Shrestha, R. M. (Eds.) (2010). Special section: Carbon Emissions and Carbon Management in Cities. Energy Policy 38(9), 4753-5296.
• Doney, S. C. and H. M. Benway (2007). Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry: An eye toward integrated research. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin 16(3): 69.
• Doney, S. C. and members of the Carbon Cycle Science Ocean Interim Implementation Group (2004). Ocean Carbon and Climate Change: An Implementation Strategy for U.S. Ocean Carbon Research.
• European Commission (2009). Integrated assessment of the European and North Atlantic Carbon Balance - key results, policy implications for post 2012 and research needs. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 136 pp. ISBN 978-92-79-07970-2.
• Feely, R. A. et al. (2010). An international observational network for ocean acidification. Ocean Obs '09 Community white paper.
• Hales, B., Wei-Jun Cai, B. Greg Mitchell, Christopher L. Sabine, and Oscar Schofield [eds.] (2008). North American Continental Margins: a synthesis and planning workshop. Report of the North American Continental Margins Working Group for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Group and Interagency Working Group. Washington, DC: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program.
• Hofmann, E., Sarmiento, J., Smith, W. (2010). A U.S. Southern Ocean Carbon, Ecosystems and Biogeochemistry Science Plan, a report of the Southern Ocean Scoping Workshop sponsored by the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and the NSF Office of Polar Programs (Workshop Steering Committee Members: C. Deutsch, E. Hofmann, T. Ito, N. Lovenduski, J. Russell, J. Sarmiento, W. Smith, P. Strutton)
• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and the International CLIVAR Project Office. Hood, M. (ed.), Ship-based Repeat Hydrography: A Strategy for a Sustained Global Programme. (IOC Technical Series, 89. IOCCP Reports, 17. ICPO Publication 142.) UNESCO, 2009. (English)
  
• King, A.W., L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, and T.J. Wilbanks [eds.] (2008). The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC, USA, 242 pp.
• Laffoley, D.d’A. & Grimsditch, G. (eds). 2009. The management of natural coastal carbon sinks. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 53 pp.
• Lee, C. and Members of the Ocean Carbon Ad Hoc Working Group (2000). Proceedings of the Ocean Carbon Transport, Exchanges and Transformations Workshop held March 7-10, 2000, Warrenton, VA.
• Liu, K.-K., Atkinson, L., Quiñones, R., Talaue-McManus, L. (Eds.) (2010). Carbon and nutrient fluxes in continental margins: A global synthesis. Global Change - The IGBP Series ISSN 1619-2435, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg., 744 pp.
• Lueger, H., R. Wanninkhof, A. Olsen, J. Trinanes, T. Johannessen, D. Wallace, and A. Koertzinger (2008). The CO2 air-sea flux in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data and ARGO profiling float data. NOAA Technical Memorandum, OAR AOML-96, 28 pp.
• A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (2011): A Report of the Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group and Subcommittee, Anna Michalak, Rob Jackson, Gregg Marland, Chris Sabine, Co-Chairs.
• National Research Council (2010). Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.
• OCB Subcommittee on Ocean Acidification (2009). Ocean Acidification - Recommended Strategy for a U.S. National Research Program, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program, 14 pp.
• OCB Subcommittee on Ocean Acidification (2009). OCB response to the EPA Notice of Data Availability on ocean acidification. View EPA docket.
• OCB Subcommittee on Ocean Acidification (2010). OCB response to the EPA call for public comment on addressing ocean acidification in the 303(d) program.
• Ocean Acidification: A Summary for Policymakers from the Second Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World (2009), M. Hood, W. Broadgate, E. Urban, O. Gaffney (Eds.), 8 pp.
• Ocean Obs '09 Community White Papers
• ORRAP Ocean Acidification Task Force (2011). Ocean Acidification Task Force: Summary of Work Completed and Recommendations for ORRAP to convey to the IWG-OA, Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel.
• Riebesell U., Fabry V. J., Hansson L. & Gattuso J.-P. (Eds.) (2010). Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting, 260 p. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
• Sarmiento, J. L., and Wofsy, S. C. (1999). A U.S. carbon cycle science plan. Report of the Carbon and Climate Working Group for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Global Change Research Program.
• Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) project - SOCAT-2 Meeting, UNESCO, Paris, June 16-17, 2008.
• The Royal Society (2005). Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, ISBN 0 85403 617 2, The Clyvedon Press Ltd, Cardiff, UK, 68 pp.