Project Updates

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A major new study has revealed that longlived swirling ocean features, known as mesoscale eddies, play a role in modifying the absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂). They can last for months or even years and carry heat, nutrients, and carbon across vast distances. Although their physical impacts have been studied for decades, until now scientists lacked a global dataset of how longlived eddies influence air–sea CO₂ exchange. 

A new peer-reviewed study led by Daniel Ford has been published in Earth System Science Data, presenting a spatially and temporally complete global surface chlorophyll-a (chl-a) data record spanning 1997–2024.

Over the last two weeks, the SCOPE team co-delivered the Second Ocean Carbon From Space Workshop with the European Space Agency (ESA), NASA, JAXA, EUMETSAT.