Project description
Ocean carbon monitoring for better climate action
The ocean absorbs about 25 % of the CO2 we emit, helping slow down climate change. However, current ocean carbon measurements don’t match model predictions, creating uncertainty about the ocean’s role in climate regulation. This gap affects our ability to make effective decisions on climate action. More accurate, high-density data from the Southern Ocean could resolve this issue. In this context, the EU-funded TRICUSO project will advance sensing technologies on robotic floats and uncrewed vessels, supporting citizen science on yachts and improving data access for scientists. TRICUSO will also evaluate how many observations are needed and suggest governance structures to support a global greenhouse gas tracking system. This will lead to better climate management.
Objective
The ocean is key in the global C cycle, taking up ca. 25% of the CO2 we emit, slowing climate change and giving us more time to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The Ocean C Value Chain (VC) of observations, data QC & analysis delivers key information around this to decision makers such as the Conference of the Parties. The RIs play a pivotal role in the VC via their ability to operate at scale & pool resources to ensure common data standards and operational practices. The urgency of the climate crisis drives us to put this VC on a much more robust footing with the World Meteorological Organisation leading the planning of a Global Greenhouse Gas Watch (G3W) covering all components of the Earth System.
Unfortunately the VC currently delivers estimates of Ocean C uptake much larger than those from models, leading to a damaged ability to manage climate change. However further work suggests that observations at a much higher density in the Southern Ocean (SO) would substantially resolve this issue. Our ability to deliver these via ships is limited by the small number that enter the SO and we therefore need many more observations from research vessels, citizen science platforms, autonomous robotic floats & surface platforms. This step change requires substantial technological innovation and complex data synthesis.
TRICUSO will address these needs by a) improving the sensing technologies on floats and small uncrewed surface vessels, b) supporting citizen science on yachts and potentially cruise and expedition vessels, c) integrating biological observations into the work flow, d) improving data flows to scientists, e) evaluating the density of observations needed & f) proposing fit for purpose governance structures that allow the RIs to operate within the G3W. These actions will enable us to have a much firmer grip of how and why Ocean Carbon uptake varies and thus a much firmer evidence base on which to make decisions around managing climate change impacts.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- social sciencessociologygovernance
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsautonomous robots
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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5838 Bergen
Norway
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Participants (17)
1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75006 Paris
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75005 Paris
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EX4 4QJ Exeter
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24145 Kiel
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750 15 PARIS
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24148 Kiel
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56700 Hennebont
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
SO14 3ZH Southampton
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8400 Oostende
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75794 Paris
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00560 Helsinki
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29280 Plouzane
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1202 Geneve
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NR4 7TJ Norwich
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81 712 Sopot
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SW1H0BH London
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