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- The TCO data site provides examples from existing providers of carbon related observations as well as example of terrestrial carbon data users. The TCO providers are: FLUXNET, ILTER, GT-Net, FAO, SOMNET, World Data Centre for Soils, as well as GLOBALVIEW-CO2, fine resolution satellites, and medium to coarse resolution satellites. The TCO users are IPCC, IGBP, Forest Resources Assessment, Global Environmental Outlook, NGO, the Convention on Biological Diversity, and the Convention to Combat Desertification. The data is also used for carbon accounting, resource planning, and resource management for different countries around the world.
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Other Databases
Some of the projects which are involved in the TCO observing system initiative are:
- The Global Carbon Project (GCP) was formed to assist the international science community to establish a common, mutually agreed knowledge base supporting policy debate and action to slow the rate of increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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- GLOBCARBON involves the development of a service to generate fully calibrated estimates of land products based on a variety of Earth Observation data, suitable for assimilation into sophisticated software simulations of the planet created by the global carbon modeling community. The project focuses on seven complete years, from 1997 to 2003 which is when overlap exists between the various satellite measurements. As of January 2006, data for this time period was completed. No data is available online at this time.
- SIBERIA-II demonstrates the viability of full carbon accounting (including greenhouse gases [GHGs]: CO2, CO, CH4, N2O, NOx) on a regional basis using the environmental tools and systems available to us today and in the near future. The region under study is Northern Eurasia, covering an area of more than 200 million ha and representing a significant part of the Earth's boreal biome which plays a critical role in global climate.
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- The Terrestrial Carbon Observation System Siberia (TCOS Siberia) project is to implement the first components of a continental scale observing system to help determine the net carbon balance of Siberia and its variation from year to year.
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- The Tropospheric Emission Monitoring Internet Service (TEMIS) project will generate long-term data sets for ozone, UV, aerosols and for several trace gases. These datasets are freely available through a user-friendly interface.
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