Project Title

Investigating biogeochemical fluxes and linkages to climate change with multi-scale observations in the Drake Passage

Summary

Event Number:
O-214-L/N
NSF / NOAA Agreement

Program Manager:
Dr. Peter Milne

ASC POC/Implementer:
Rachel Shackelford / Bruce Felix

Principal Investigator(s)

Dr. David Russel Munro
david.munro@colorado.edu
University of Colorado Boulder
CIRES
Boulder, Colorado

Location

Supporting Stations: ARSV Laurence M. Gould, RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer
Research Locations: Drake Passage

Description

The Southern Ocean plays a key role in modulating the global carbon cycle, but the size and even the sign of the global ocean flux in terms of the atmospheric burden of man-made carbon dioxide is still uncertain. This is in part because of lack of measurements in this remote region of the world ocean. This project continues a multi-year time series of shipboard chemical measurements in the Drake Passage to detect changes in the ocean carbon cycle and to improve the understanding of mechanisms driving natural variability and long-term change in the Southern Ocean.

Field Season Overview

This project supports ongoing surface measurements of the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) from aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould and RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer. In addition, discrete measurements may be made from water samples collected underway.

Deploying Team Members