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NASA's Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is a remote climate research program created by a congressional order in 2010 that provides grants of about $500,000 a year for climate research that measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions using reliable sources of consistent data. monitoring program that measured carbon dioxide and methane with instruments placed in satellites and aircraft. CMS data was used to monitor the national emission cuts agreed to in the Paris climate accords. The $10-million-a-year research line, CMS, undertook research that assessed carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The funding for CMS was terminated by President Trump in April 2018.

Description

"The NASA Carbon Monitoring System is designed to make significant contributions in characterizing, quantifying, understanding, and predicting the evolution of global carbon sources and sinks through improved monitoring of carbon stocks and fluxes."

With instruments in aircraft and satellites, NASA's $10-million-a-year research Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) measured carbon dioxide and methane emissions in the United States and other countries that could be used to track progress of individual nations on Paris climate emission cuts agreements. Other CMS research projects measured carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. CMS "stitch-[ed] together observations of sources and sinks into high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon."

NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is a climate research program created by a congressional order in 2010 that provides grants of about $500,000 a year for climate research that measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions using reliable sources of consistent data. Using instruments in satellites and airplanes CMS funded research projects provide data to the United States and other countries that help track progress of individual nations regarding their Paris climate emission cuts agreements. For example, CMS projects measured carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. CMS "stitch-ed] together observations of sources and sinks into high-resolution models of the planet's flows of carbon."

Funding

The 2019 federal budget specifically assured funding for CMS, after President Trump ended CMS funding in April, 2018.

History

NASA Carbon Monitoring System program was created by a congressional order in 2010 that provides grants of about $500,000 a year for climate research that measure carbon dioxide and methane emissions using reliable sources of consistent data.

Background

Carbon monitoring refers to processes that collect data, monitor, measure, and track greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, which emits GHG in the atmosphere in largest quantities, and methane, which is even more potent than carbon dioxide, as a crucial aspect of reducing emissions and slowing climate change. Using different technologies projects funded under CMS measure methane emissions from agriculture and carbon dioxide emissions from land use changes, such as deforestation, or from burning fossil fuels, whether in a power plant, automobile, or other device. As countries adopt carbon pricing and cap-and-trade programs in response to Paris Agreement, carbon monitoring assists in placing a price on carbon and currently being used in Europe.

Research

New Satellite-Based Maps of Mangrove Heights

In May 2019, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAACs) announced that the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) using new satellite-based maps of global mangrove forests across 116 countries, had created a new dataset that characterizes the "distribution, biomass, and canopy height of mangrove-forested wetlands". Mangrove forests move carbon dioxide "from the atmosphere into long-term storage" in greater quantities than other forests, making them "among the planet's best carbon scrubbers" according to NASA's Earth Observatory.