Publish carbon dioxide data in oceans

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is strongly promoting international cooperation efforts to build new data on the process of accumulating carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) in the sea and the ocean. positive globally.

The reporter at the United Nations said the new data system is being coordinated by a team of more than 100 scientists around the world in the Coordination of Carbon Project on International Oceans (IOCCP).

On March 19, in the US Geographic Federation's (AGU) EOS magazine, this international group of scientists published the most comprehensive data on CO ₂ measurements on world oceans and oceans in 40 years.

This ocean surface CO ₂ atlas (SOCAT) has been compiled from 6.3 million global observations from research ships on oceans, commercial vessels and fixed stations in the world since 1968. .

The data is freely accessible for these scientists to record changes in CO2 on the surface of global seas and oceans according to the ever-increasing changes in the amount of greenhouse gases released. into the atmosphere.

International scientists claim that oceans absorb CO ₂ in favor of humans because of the reduced greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere but have acidified, endangering living organisms in sea ​​and ocean.

The knowledge of the annual and decades-old changes in oceans in the oceans is essential to assess the responses and interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle in the oceans. SOCAT becomes an invaluable source of knowledge for marine scientists to study the CO2 cycle in oceans as well as its impact on global temperatures.