Mississippi Basin Carbon Project Science Plan

Land surface characterization and analysis

A major product of the MBCP will be the delineation of individual drainage basins in a self-consistent manner. We will begin by registering the basins associated with NID and RESIS data within the Yazoo, Nishnabotna, and South Platte prototype study areas. We will also register Hydrologic Unit Codes and RESIS basins for the entire Mississippi drainage area. Basin characterization will begin with verification of RESIS database attributes for the prototype basins. We will extend this process of registration and verification to other basins and ultimately to the entire Mississippi River drainage. A long-term goal is the merging of the delineated basin data, using GIS techniques, with the wide variety of other available spatial data summarized in Table 1.

	Anticipated products
	Summary products
	Field and process studies