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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications Earth & Environment
Main Authors: Neill Mackay, Andrew J. Watson, Parvada Suntharalingam, Zhaohui Chen, Peter Landschützer
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
geo
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00592-6
https://doaj.org/article/3ed678eeb49a494cb28ba4c1bbdecc67
Description
Summary: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.