Exploring optimising strategies for sampling air-sea carbon dioxide flux in the southern ocean

A model study was undertaken to investigate the optimization of sampling strategies for returning low-uncertainty sea-air CO₂ flux measurements in the Southern Ocean. Replicating Lenton et al. (2006) using the ORCA2/PISCES ocean biological model shows that sampling 4 times a year, every 2⁰ in latitude and every 40⁰ in longitude reduces the uncertainty of estimating annual CO₂ flux estimates such that sampling at a higher frequency does not reduce the total uncertainty in proportion to the increase in sampling effort.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Oceanography

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Pringle, Nicholas

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Monteiro, Pedro M S
• Waldron, Howard

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13383

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13383