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Tuesday 14 August 2018

National Science Foundation Diving robots find Antarctic seas exhale surprising amounts of carbon dioxide in winter

Diving robots find Antarctic seas exhale surprising amounts of carbon dioxide in winter

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Diving robots find Antarctic seas exhale surprising amounts of carbon dioxide in winter

Researcher Stephen Riser drops a float into Antarctica's Southern Ocean during a 2016-17 cruise.

The open water nearest the sea ice surrounding Antarctica releases significantly more carbon dioxide in winter than previously believed, a new study has found. Researchers conducting the study used data gathered over several winters by an array of robotic floats diving and drifting in the Southern Ocean around the southernmost continent.

The effort is part of the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling ...

More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=296316&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


This is an NSF News item.

Published August 14, 2018 at 09:30PM
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