Project Outputs

Datasets

SCOPE will produce global datasets of the pools, fluxes and exchanges of carbon in the ocean, including air-sea CO₂ exchange, interior dissolved organic carbon, coastal and open ocean dissolved organic carbon, particulate inorganic carbon, particulate organic carbon, phytoplankton carbon, primary production and export production.

UExP-FNN-U full surface ocean carbonate system dataset

A joint dataset developed between two European Space Agency (ESA) projects; Ocean Carbon for Climate (OC4C; https://oceancarbon4climate.org/) and Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, Fluxes and Exchanges (SCOPE; https://oceancarbon-scope.org/). The dataset extends the University of Exeter Physics Feed Forward Neural Network with Uncertainties (UExP-FNN-U) approach, originally developed within the EU project OceanICU (https://ocean-icu.eu/), to provide estimates of the full surface ocean carbonate system. Within the development there was a focus on climate quality datasets from the ESA Climate Change Initiative (https://climate.esa.int/en/), a careful consideration of the sea surface temperatures used to maintain consistency with the air-sea CO2 flux calculations, and a comprehensive uncertainty budget. These data are available open source on Zenodo (Ford et al. 2025; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15784426), and a manuscript is in preparation to describe the dataset (Ford et al. in prep).

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2026

Toming K., Kulk G., Quast R, Shevchuk R, Kutser T (2026). Towards a global assessment of coastal dissolved organic carbon. Remote Sensing of Environment 339: 115388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2026.115388

Ford, D. J., Kulk, G., Sathyendranath, S., and Shutler, J. D.: Decadal and spatially complete global surface chlorophyll-a data record from satellite and BGC-Argo observations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 569–584, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-569-2026, 2026.