Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean

Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean

Led by researchers at NOAA and Columbia University, the Constraining Ocean Carbon with Optimized Observing (COCO2) project will use uncrewed surface vehicles to reduce uncertainty in estimates of the ocean carbon sink.

Environmental News Network - Robot Sailboats Will Spend Five Years Measuring Carbon in the Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean covers almost a third of the world’s ocean surface and connects the basins of every other major ocean, with unforgiving conditions that make research difficult.