  We present a measurement of the inclusive jet cross section using the Run II
cone algorithm and data collected by the D0 experiment in p pbar collisions at
a center-of-mass energy sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV, corresponding to an integrated
luminosity of 0.70 fb^(-1). The jet energy calibration and the method used to
extract the inclusive jet cross section are described. We discuss the main
uncertainties, which are dominated by the jet energy scale uncertainty. The
results cover jet transverse momenta from 50 GeV to 600 GeV with jet rapidities
in the range -2.4 to 2.4 and are compared to predictions using recent proton
parton distribution functions. Studies of correlations between systematic
uncertainties in transverse momentum and rapidity are presented.
