Southern Ocean carbon data and machine learning
We are very glad to announce that Professor McKinley will be co-leading, with Adrienne Sutton of NOAA PMEL, a project in Schmidt Science’s Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC).
In this effort, we will deploy autonomous vehicles in the Southern Ocean winter to observe carbon and related variables. We will plan observations each year using Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to determine which data can most improve machine learning based data products.
The data collected in COCO2 will be shared immediately via the SOCAT database so that everyone can work with them to reduce critical uncertainties in the ocean carbon sink.
On Constraining Ocean Carbon with Optimized Observing (COCO2), we also have amazing partners at CSIR / Stellenbosch University in South Africa, including Sandy Tomalla; and at CSIRO in Australia, including Elizabeth Shadwick.
Here is the Columbia press release for more information.