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Project Information
The Role of Cyclonic Upwelling Eddies in Southern Ocean CO2 Flux
Short Title:
The Role of Cyclonic Upwelling Eddies in Southern Ocean CO2 Flux
Start Date:
2021-06-01
End Date:
2024-05-30
Description/Abstract
Between Sept. 1, 2022 and April 27, 2023, a Autonomous Surface Vehicle (ASV) Saildrone collected underway chemical, meteorological and physical data in the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean. Measurements were made at high spatial and temporal resolution ( ~ 5-km and 1 hour) and include observations of ocean and atmosphere pCO2, air temperature and humidity, wind, ocean skin temperature, SST, salinity, ocean color (Chlorophyll α, CDOM), dissolved oxygen, and ocean current velocity between roughly 13.5°E and 82°E and between the Sub Tropical Front (STF) and the Subantarctic Front (SAF). The mission track spanned from the Agulhas Return Current south of South Africa to the northern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current downstream of the Kerguelen Plateau. The primary goal of the mission was to collect data within cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies to quantify CO2 fluxes to better understand physical processes (upwelling and downwelling) that that can contribute to carbon cycling in addition to the biological pump.
Personnel
Person Role
Williams, Nancy Investigator
Lindstrom, Eric Co-Investigator
Carter, Brendan Co-Investigator
Tamsitt, Veronica Researcher
Bonin, Jennifer Researcher
Chambers, Don Investigator and contact
Funding
Antarctic Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Award # 2048840
AMD - DIF Record(s)
Data Management Plan
Product Level:
1 (processed data)
Publications
  1. Tamsitt, V. (2023). New insights into air-sea fluxes and their role in Subantarctic Mode Water formation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381(2249). (doi:10.1098/rsta.2022.0066)
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