US JGOFS Data System

The U.S. launched the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the late 1980s to study the ocean carbon cycle. An ambitious goal was set to understand the controls on the concentrations and fluxes of carbon and associated nutrients in the ocean. A new field of ocean biogeochemistry emerged with an emphasis on quality measurements of carbon system parameters and interdisciplinary field studies of the biological, chemical and physical process which control the ocean carbon cycle. As we studied ocean biogeochemistry, we learned that our simple views of carbon uptake and transport were severely limited, and a new "wave" of ocean science was born. U.S. JGOFS has been supported primarily by the U.S. National Science Foundation in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Energy and the Office of Naval Research. U.S. JGOFS, ended in 2005 with the conclusion of the Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP).

美国于20世纪80年代末启动了联合全球海洋通量研究（JGOFS），旨在探究海洋碳循环。该研究设定了一项宏伟的目标，即揭示控制海洋中碳及其相关营养素浓度和通量的因素。随着海洋生物地球化学这一新领域的兴起，研究重点转向了对碳系统参数的高质量测量以及控制海洋碳循环的生物、化学和物理过程的跨学科实地研究。在深入研究海洋生物地球化学的过程中，我们意识到对于碳吸收和传输的简单观点是极为局限的，从而催生了一股新的海洋科学浪潮。美国JGOFS项目主要得到美国国家科学基金会的大力支持，并与国家海洋和大气管理局、国家航空航天局、能源部和海军研究办公室紧密合作。美国JGOFS项目于2005年随着综合分析与模拟项目（SMP）的完成而告终。