TRICUSO colleagues Maciej Telszewski, Richard Sanders, Dorothee Bakker (pictured above) and Lucie Knor joined experts from different scientific communities to discuss what a greenhouse gas observing network for the WMO G3W needs to look like to reach the initiative’s main goal: the creation of a sustained infrastructure that delivers monthly CO₂ flux estimates for the whole Earth. Integrating Ocean Carbon Observing into the core G3W workstreams as they mature and take shape will be a challenge that will require many countries to work together and jointly implement this ambitious plan, which will definitely include more CO₂ measurements in the Southern Ocean.
Important themes in the discussion included the need to return our surface observing network to pre-covid levels, the urgent need to stabilise SOCAT, the key role autonomy and atmospheric CO₂ observations will play, the need for systematic OSSEs to be undertaken regularly and the key roles other Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) networks including Biogeochemical Argo floats are likely to play in the system eventually.
Courtesy of Richard Sanders and Lucie Knor.
