Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)

Oceanographic processes research programme, aiming to understand better the processes controlling, regional to global and seasonal to interannual fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere, surface ocean and ocean interior, and their sensitivity to climate changes. It is a Component of the IGBP (see separate entry).

The International Project Office WWW includes background information on the project, information on national level projects, datasets collected (including its cruise inventory) and publications list.

USA WWW site provides access to data collected by USA component and links to other international components.