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Facing the challenges
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Currently, the ocean takes up
about 25% of the carbon dioxide
emitted annually by human
activities
The uptake rate is changing
Observe the changes
The amount of CO2 taken up by the ocean is
not the same everywhere. To obtain a complete picture of global carbon uptake and
emissions by the oceans, CARBOCHANGE
uses a comprehensive network of buoys, floats, and research vessels, including commercial ships (as voluntary observing ships, ”VOS
lines”). While these ships cross the oceans,
scientific equipment installed onboard continuously measures relevant variables. All
incoming data are quality-controlled, standardized and archived. The data are made available for scientists all over the world via the
data portal at our project website.
Image: Dorothee Bakker
•
Carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil
fuel burning and land-use
changes is the main driver for
human-induced climate change
What are the interactions with
How much CO2 have the world
oceans taken up so far?
How much will they progressing climate change?
take up in the future?
Quantify the processes
Image: Pete Brown
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Understanding the problem: how much, where, when?
A lot happens to the CO2 after it is taken up by the
ocean. It can be transported by water masses,
precipitated as carbonates, transformed into organic carbon by planktonic algae, released again
to the atmosphere or buried forever in the sedi-
ments. CARBOCHANGE will quantify these key physical, chemical and biogeochemical processes
through a combination of field observations, process studies, and modelling.
CARBOCHANGE is establishing model systems that will contribute to predicting the
future climate. Observational data from the
project will be used to calibrate and improve
existing models. Using these models, we
are quantifying the carbon sources and
sinks of the ocean of the past and present.
We are also predicting future changes in the
ocean carbon cycling with respect to
ongoing and future CO2 emissions and associated climate change.
Image: Jerry Tjiputra
Predict the future
Summarize the results and inform policy makers
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Project results are summarized in regular synthesis reports and outreach papers. These documents
provide information on how much CO2 the ocean
takes up on a regional and global level and what
drives associated changes. They further give
synthesized information on the state of the carbon
cycle in the ocean, and on the vulnerability of the
oceanic carbon sink. These results are shared with
the scientific community, the general public, and
are communicated directly to policy makers. Several CARBOCHANGE scientists are co-authors of international assessments such as the reports of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). The project results represent an important
contribution to international synthesis publications.
CARBOCHANGE closely cooperates internationally with other institutions and projects in the field of marine carbon cycle research such as the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme IGBP, Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research IMBER, Surface Ocean Lower
Atmosphere Study SOLAS, the Global Carbon Project GCP, and the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes RECCAP.
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