How have ocean biogeochemical and physical processes contributed to today’s climate and its variability, and how will this system change over the next century?
Over the past century, the ocean has absorbed about one-third of excess CO2 emitted from fossil fuel combustion and over 90% of the excess energy of global warming. This has precipitated change in: 1) distribution of temperature and salinity, 2) ocean circulation and heat transport, 3) decreasing pH of seawater, and 4) expansion of low-oxygen zones.
News
- Forum explores coastal storms … and what we can do about them
- URI researchers develop plan for Global Center focused on Blue Climate Solutions
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Projects
- Southern Ocean Diatoms and Climate Change: Quantifying the Relative Roles of Diversity and Plasticity in Evolution
- Participation in IODP Expedition #361 – Southern African Climates
- A low-cost float for distributed, Lagrangian observations of the biological carbon pump
- How to trace glacial meltwater in the ocean by shipboard hydrographic analysis of dissolved neon and krypton