 | New Views of the Oceanic Carbon Cycle from Autonomous Explorers |
 By Jim Bishop
A new paradigm for ocean carbon observations is
emerging with the rapid advances in autonomous measurements of carbon systems
with the success of robotic ocean profiling Carbon Explorers, autonomous
sensors for particulate organic and inorganic carbon (POC and PIC), and new instruments which will measure
year-long high frequency records of POC and PIC
sedimentation in the very observation-poor but biologically-active upper
kilometers of the ocean. The new observing capability described here is
critical for improved prediction of the substantial biotic carbon flows in the
ocean. There are excellent prospects for an enhanced ocean carbon observing
system fully capable of autonomous real time monitoring, measurement, and
verification of ocean carbon sequestration.
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