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Landmark study analyzes global ocean carbon storage over two decades, indicates weakening of ocean carbon sink

AOML Communications — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:25:45 +0000

A landmark study published last week demonstrates that the ocean’s role as a carbon sink and its ability to store anthropogenic, or human-caused, carbon may be weakening. A collaboration among international researchers led by Jens Daniel Müller, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich), this study captures a snapshot of three decades of global interior ocean measurements to determine […]

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First NOAA GO-SHIP Cruise In 5 Years Departs To Study Unique Atlantic Basin

AOML Communications — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:47:16 +0000

Originally published at NOAA Global Ocean Monitoring & Observing on March 7th, 2023. 30-years of ocean observations provide view into long-term ocean trends On March 6, a team of scientists on the NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown departed from Suape, Brazil for a 55-day cruise to the northerly waters of Reykjavik, Iceland. With 150 planned stops along this […]

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Global Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Continue to Rise

AOML Communications — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:55:37 +0000

Global carbon dioxide emissions in 2022 remain at record levels and natural carbon sinks are being impacted by climate change, according to a report published last week by the Global Carbon Project.

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AOML Contributes to Global Carbon Budget 2020

AOML Communications — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:15:30 +0000

On December 11, 2020 researchers with the Global Carbon Project released their annual update for the Global Carbon Budget. Daily global CO2 emissions are estimated to have decreased by a maximum of about 17% by early April 2020 compared to average levels in 2019. About half of this change is due to changes in surface transport, especially road transport, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Women’s History Month: Ocean Acidification with Leticia Barbero

AOML Communications — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:05:55 +0000

Dr. Leticia Barbero is a chemical oceanographer at NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami. In her role, she works with AOML to study the carbon dioxide system in the ocean, specifically ocean acidification in the coastal waters of the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.

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AOML Contributes Ocean Carbon Observations for the Global Carbon Budget 2019

AOML Communications — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:50:55 +0000

Every year the Global Carbon Project publishes an authoritative observation based Global Carbon Budget detailing the annual release of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and the uptake by the terrestrial biosphere and oceans. In 2018 the global carbon emissions were still increasing, but their rate of increase had slowed. Global carbon emissions are set to grow more slowly in 2019, with a decline in coal burning offset by strong growth in natural gas use worldwide.

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Study Calls for Greater Use of Satellites to Monitor Ocean Carbon

AOML Communications — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:56:36 +0000

The ability to predict Earth’s future climate relies upon monitoring efforts to determine the fate of carbon dioxide emissions. For example, how much carbon stays in the atmosphere or becomes stored in the oceans or on land? The oceans in particular have helped to slow climate change as they absorb and then store carbon dioxide for thousands of years.

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One-of-a-Kind Floating Laboratories Track Marine Environmental Change

AOML Communications — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:25:34 +0000

A unique collaboration between Royal Caribbean Cruise Ltd (RCL) and the University of Miami’s (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science is amassing an incredibly valuable dataset highlighting the intricate connection between the ocean, atmosphere and climate. Over the past 20 years UM has benefited from many scientific collaborators in this endeavor, most importantly, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) contributing their own scientific expertise and scientific equipment.

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New NOAA, Partner Buoy in American Samoa Opens Window into a Changing Ocean

AOML Communications — Wed, 22 May 2019 16:51:17 +0000

NOAA and partners have launched a new buoy in Fagatele Bay within NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the waters around a vibrant tropical coral reef ecosystem. "This new monitoring effort in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean will not only advance our understanding of changing ocean chemistry in this valuable and vibrant coral ecosystem but will also help us communicate these changes to diverse stakeholders in the Pacific Islands and across the United States,” said Derek Manzello, coral ecologist with NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.

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Global Ocean is Absorbing More Carbon from Fossil Fuel Emissions

AOML Communications — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:55:17 +0000

The new research published by NOAA and international partners in Science finds as carbon dioxide emissions have increased in the atmosphere, the ocean has absorbed a greater volume of emissions. Though the volume of carbon dioxide going into the ocean is increasing, the percentage of emissions — about 31 percent — absorbed by it has remained relatively stable when compared to the first survey of carbon in the global ocean published in 2004.

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