Welcome
The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is a forward-looking initiative designed to make significant contributions in characterizing, quantifying, understanding, and predicting the evolution of global carbon sources and sinks.
Funded and directed by a 2010 Congressional Appropriation, the program includes a: Terrestrial Biomass Pilot, an Integrated Emission/Uptake (Flux) Pilot and Scoping Efforts.
New ROSES-11 Solicitation:
Appendix A.45: Carbon Monitoring System Program in Earth Science
- Announcement
- Solicitation summary
- Solicitation FAQs
- Close date: 4.20.2012
Carbon Monitoring System - Structural Elements
- Biomass Pilot
- The objectives of the Biomass Pilot Product are:
- Utilize satellite and in situ data to produce quantitative estimates (and uncertainties) of aboveground terrestrial vegetation biomass on a national and local scale.
- Assess the ability of these results to meet the nation’s need for monitoring carbon storage / sequestration.
- Flux Pilot
- The objectives of the Integrated Emission/Uptake (Flux) Pilot Product are:
- Combine satellite data with modeled atmospheric transport initiated by observationally-constrained terrestrial and oceanic models to tie the atmospheric observations to surface exchange processes.
- Estimate the atmosphere-biosphere CO2 exchange.
- Identify research, products, and analysis system evolutions required to support carbon policy and management as global observing capability increases.