Website
https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP160102870
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Eddies: The key to understanding Southern Ocean carbon cycling. This project plans to observe an eddy in the Southern Ocean for three weeks, to understand how its circulation affects ocean productivity and the exchange of carbon dioxide between the ocean and atmosphere. Ocean eddies are like small high and low pressure weather systems which spin either clockwise or anticlockwise, are about 100–200 kilometres across and several hundred metres deep. Eddies are important because they generate vertical currents that move nutrients and carbon dioxide up and down. Expected project outcomes will include a better understanding of carbon cycling in an ocean region that is central to the climate of Australia and the rest of the planet.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 12-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $269,900.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biological Oceanography | Chemical Oceanography | Physical Oceanography | Oceanography
