Communications Earth & Environment (Nov 2022)

Improved winter data coverage of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink from extrapolation of summertime observations

  • Neill Mackay,
  • Andrew J. Watson,
  • Parvada Suntharalingam,
  • Zhaohui Chen,
  • Peter Landschützer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00592-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Uncertainties in the CO2 flux in the Southern Ocean, produced by a lack of direct wintertime observations, can be addressed by a combination of pseudo observations and neural network machine learning-based mapping.