• To determine full water column distributions of selected trace elements and isotopes, including their concentration, chemical speciation, and physical form, along a sufficient number of sections in each ocean basin to establish the principal relationships between these distributions and with more traditional
hydrographic parameters;
Ongoing measurements of anthropogenic CO2, other gases and
hydrographic parameters in these key marginal seas will provide information on changes in global oceanic CO2 uptake associated with the predicted increasing atmospheric CO2 and future global climate change.
Not exact matches
Using these Carbon Systems Algorithms, scientists can predict
parameters in the Southern Ocean including temperature, oxygen, salinity, pressure, and nitrate using data from two
hydrographic surveys that were conducted in the Southern Ocean in the spring of 2011 and 2014.
Hydrographic observations can not provide TCHP fields needed to monitor this key
parameter on a daily to weekly basis with wide coverage over regions of TC activity.