Optical Data Sheds Light on Environmental Change
(NOC) will be leading a working group aiming to build the world’s largest database on carbon flux measurements from optical sensors. Called TOMCAT, this group will include research organizations from developed and developing countries and has today announced it has received funding from the Scientific Committee of Ocean Research (SCOR) to start work. Understanding the ocean’s ability to store carbon dioxide requires more information about the movement, or flux, of carbon from the upper to the deep, dark ocean, where it can be ‘stored’. Knowing the carbon flux
Report: Ocean Acidity is Increasing ... Rapidly
on Climate Change taking place in Warsaw (Poland) from November 11 to 22. The document represents the conclusions of 540 experts from 37 countries reflecting the latest research on the subject. It was prepared by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP). It emerges that all the oceans, which together absorb close to one quarter of CO2 emissions generated by human activity, have experienced an overall 26% rise in acidity since the dawn of the industrial age. Twenty-four