The North American Carbon Program Plan (NACP)
A Report of the Committee of the
U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group
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Acronyms
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ADEOSII
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Advanced Earth Observing Satellite, Japan
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AES
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Atmospheric Environment Service
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AIRS
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Atmospheric Infrared Sounder
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AIRSAR
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Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
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ALOS
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Advanced Land Observing Satellite, Japan
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AVHRR
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Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
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AVIRIS
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Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
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BOREAS
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Boreal Ecosystem Study
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CASMGS
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Consortium for Agricultural Soils Mitigation of Greenhouse Gases
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CBL
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Continental Boundary Layer
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CCI
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Carbon Cycle Initiative
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CCIWG
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Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group
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CCSP
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Carbon Cycle Science Plan
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CDIAC
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Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
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CMDL
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Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Laboratory
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COBRA 2000
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CO2 Boundary-layer Regional Airborne experiment 2000
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CoOP
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Coastal Ocean Processes
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CSDAS
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Carbon-Species Data Assimilation System
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CZCS
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Coastal Zone Color Scanner
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DAO
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Data Assimilation Office
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DGVMS
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Dynamic Global Vegetation Models
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DIAL
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Differential Absorption Lidar
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DIC
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Dissolved Inorganic Carbon
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DOE
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Department of Energy
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DOC
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Dissolved Organic Carbon
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ECMWF
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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EEC
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Engineering Education and Centers
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ENSO
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El Niño-Southern Oscillation
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Envisat
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Environmental Satellite
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EOS
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Earth Observing System
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ERS
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European Remote Sensing Satellite
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ERS-1
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Japan Earth Resources Satellite
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ESSP
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Earth System Sciences Pathfinder
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FACE
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Free Air Carbon Exchange
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FIA
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Forest Inventory Analysis
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FPAR
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Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation
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FPI
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Fabry-Perot Interferometer
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FT
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Free Troposphere
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GCC
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Global Carbon Cycle
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GFDL
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Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
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GPM
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Global Precipitation Mission
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GPP
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Gross Primary Productivity
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GTE
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Global Tropospheric Experiment
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IIP
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Instrument Incubator Program
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INTEX-NA
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Intercontinental Transport Experiment-North America
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IOP
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Intensive Operation Periods
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LAI
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Leaf Index Area
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LandSat
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Land Remote-Sensing Satellite
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LDCM
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LandSat Data Continuity Mission
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LSCOP
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Large Scale CO2 Observation Plan
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LTER
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Long-Term Ecological Research
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LVIS
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Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor
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MISR
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Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer
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MODIS
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Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
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MOPITT
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Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere
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NACP
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North American Carbon Program
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NAS
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National Academy of Sciences
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NCAR
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National Center for Atmospheric Research
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NCEP
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National Centers for Environmental Prediction
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NDIR
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Non-Dispersive Infrared
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NDVI
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Normalized difference vegetation index
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NEE
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Net Ecosystem Exchange of Carbon
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NODC
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National Oceanographic Data Center
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NPOESS
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National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
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NPP
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Net Primary Productivity
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NRI
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National Resources Inventory
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NSF
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National Science Foundation
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NSIPP
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NASA Seasonal-to-Inter-annual Prediction Program
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NWP
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Numerical Weather Prediction
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NWS
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National Weather Service
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OMB
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Ocean Modeling Branch
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OMI
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Ozone Monitoring Instrument
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PBL
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Planetary Boundary Layer
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pCO2
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Partial Pressure of Dissolved CO2
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PgC
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Picograms of Carbon (10:15 g)
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PR-2
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Second Generation Precipitation Radar
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QA/QC
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Quality Assurance/Quality Control
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RAMS
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Real-time Analysis of Multi-channel Signals
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RioMar
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River-dominated Ocean Margins
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SAGE
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Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment
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SeaWiFS
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Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor
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SIMBIOS
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Sensor Inter-comparison and Merger for Interdisciplinary Oceanic Studies
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SIR-C
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Shuttle Imaging Radar
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SLICER
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Scanning Lidar Imager of Canopies by Echo Recovery
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SSM/I
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Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
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SST
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Sea Surface Temperature
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TES
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Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
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Tg
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Teragrams (1012g)
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TM
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Thematic Mapper
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TOMS
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Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer
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TOPEX
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Ocean Topography Experiment
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TRMM
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Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
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USDA
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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VCL
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Vegetation Canopy Lidar
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VOS
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Volunteer Observing Ships
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WMO
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World Meteorological Organization
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