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The Mid-Continent Regional Intensive Campaign is primarily a large-scale test to compare and reconcile, to the extent possible, regional carbon fluxes on hourly to annual time scales using "top-down" atmospheric budgets versus "bottom-up" ecosystem modelbased inventories. A secondary goal is to identify the mechanisms governing the regional fluxes.
Prepared for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Scientific Steering Group and Interagency Working Group by the NACP Implementation Strategy Group.
The concept paper for the mid-continent campaign provides a complete overview of this effort.
A plan for carbon cycle research focused on measuring and understanding sources and sinks of CO2, CH4, and CO in North America and adjacent oceans. The plan outlines how to implement a principal recommendation of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan (1999). Prepared by the NACP Committee of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Steering Group, at the request of the Agencies of the U.S. Global Change Research Program.