{"id":66283,"date":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researchers-join-noaanasa-voyage-to-southern-ocean-to-probe-greenhouse-gases\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researchers-join-noaanasa-voyage-to-southern-ocean-to-probe-greenhouse-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/02\/uri-researchers-join-noaanasa-voyage-to-southern-ocean-to-probe-greenhouse-gases\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researchers join NOAA\/NASA voyage to Southern Ocean to probe greenhouse gases"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 February 27, 2008 — More than 30 scientists will embark this week on a research mission to the Southern Ocean to study how gases important to climate change move between the atmosphere and the ocean under high winds and seas. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment, a six-week research expedition aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown, departing Feb. 28 from Punta Arenas, Chile. <\/p>\n


\n\tScientists from dozens of universities and research institutions \u2013 including 溏心vlog免费B站 oceanographers David Hebert and David Ullman — plan to measure turbulence, waves, bubbles, temperature and ocean color, and investigate how these factors relate to the air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide and other climate-relevant gases. The research will help improve the accuracy of climate models and predictions. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers, along with colleagues from Oregon State University, will take measurements of nutrients and phytoplankton concentrations in the water and use that information to estimate the carbon budget in the upper ocean.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cOne source of the uptake of carbon dioxide in the ocean is the growth of phytoplankton, and in order to determine how much carbon dioxide is taken up by phytoplankton, it is important to know the quantity of nutrients mixed into the upper ocean,\u201d explained Hebert. The 溏心vlog免费B站 team will tow an undulating vehicle behind the ship to measure temperature, salinity and other water properties, as well as to estimate the mixing that occurs in the ocean. In addition, sea water will be pumped onto the ship for a real-time chemical analysis.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe world\u2019s oceans are estimated to absorb about 2 billion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere every year, which is about 30 percent of the total annual global emissions of carbon dioxide. Scientists know higher wind speeds promote faster exchange of gases, but there have been very few studies aimed at directly measuring these exchanges under real world conditions where other factors, such as breaking waves, can influence the process.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cNASA\u2019s ongoing effort to understand the global carbon cycle will benefit from the data this cruise will produce about the mechanisms that govern gas transfer in this remote part of the world\u2019s ocean,\u201d said Paula Bontempi, manager of NASA\u2019s ocean biology and biogeochemistry research program. \u201cNASA\u2019s global satellite observations of ocean color that reveal so much about the health of our oceans also will be improved in this region as we validate what our space-based sensors see with direct measurements taken at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tNASA\u2019s Aqua satellite makes ocean color observations over the Southern Ocean every few days with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The satellite, launched in 2002, uses six instruments to make global measurements of the atmosphere, land, oceans, and snow and ice cover.<\/p>\n


\nThe Southern Ocean covers a vast area and has some of the roughest seas on Earth. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt is the largest ocean region where the surface waters directly connect to the ocean interior, providing a pathway into the deep sea for carbon dioxide released from human activities,\u201d said Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at NOAA\u2019s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, and co-chief scientist on the cruise. \u201cUnderstanding how atmospheric carbon dioxide is absorbed into these cold surface waters under high winds speeds is important for determining how the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide will respond to future climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe will be directly assessing the rate and mechanism by which the ocean is taking up carbon and releasing it,\u201d said cruise co-chief scientist David Ho of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. \u201cThis is the first U.S.-led effort to use all the state-of-the-art tools that we have to quantify gas exchange in the Southern Ocean. After years of planning, it is extremely satisfying to see the experiment finally take place.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nFor more information on the experiment on the Web, visit: http:\/\/so-gasex.org.<\/p>\n

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NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 February 27, 2008 — More than 30 scientists will embark this week on a research mission to the Southern Ocean to study how gases important to climate change move between the atmosphere and the ocean under high winds and seas. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}