Where are the ships? – last 30 days of transmitted data (the ship will not be displayed if all positions were missing or suspect)
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CARBON-OPS is a UK project currently funded under NERC Knowledge Transfer initiative (2007-2009), which aims to develop an automated supply chain of ocean surface and atmospheric carbon dioxide measurements from selected UK research ships to operational end-users. The measurements and supporting data are sent in near real-time via satellite to Plymouth Marine Laboratory. They are then forwarded daily to the British Oceanographic Data Centre to undergo an initial level of automated quality control and processing before being displayed on this web site and made available to the project partners.
A secondary level of quality control and processing then takes place at a later date (delayed mode). The end products of this supply chain will be used for testing ocean carbon models and to develop environmental indicators of CO2 uptake by the oceans together with the related impacts on global climate, ocean pH and the health of marine ecosystems. [more]
Use the zooming tool to focus on a sea area or on a section of the ship's track.
Below are the latest measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the sea (blue - left axis) and in the atmosphere (orange - left axis) from the five selected ships. They are expressed as the raw partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) in parts per million (ppm), and are plotted alongside sea surface temperature (green - right axis). Data can be explored further by clicking on the plots.
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