Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, Fluxes and Exchanges (SCOPE)​

The ocean plays an important role in the global carbon cycle through the annual absorption of a quarter of all anthropogenic CO₂ emissions. Monitoring the ocean carbon cycle is fundamental to managing climate change and satellite observations play a major role in this, with capabilities to view the surface ocean synoptically at high temporal resolution. In the Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools fluxes and Exchange (SCOPE) project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), we bring together an international team of experts to study the ocean carbon cycle from space to better understand how much carbon the ocean stores and how this changes over time. We focus on producing climate-quality datasets, including error estimates, and on collaboration between remote sensing scientists, in situ data experts and biogeochemical modellers to advance our capability of monitoring the ocean carbon cycle.