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Name
University of Liège, Laboratory of Oceanology, Chemical Oceanography Unit
Address
Institut de Physique, Sart Tilman B5
Zipcode
B-4000
City
Liège
Country
Belgium
Phone
+32 4 366 33 26
Fax
+32 4 366 23 55
Email
Alberto.Borges@ulg.ac.be
Centre Website
http://www.co2.ulg.ac.be/

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Research Themes of the Chemical Oceanography Unit 
One of the most challenging issues addressed to the oceanographic community is to budget atmospheric CO2 fluxes over the oceans. The open ocean has a major role in the global CO2 cycle, since it absorbs about 29% of the anthropogenic CO2 inputs (that contribute to 57% of the greenhouse forcing among all radiative gases). So far, one of the best methods is to compile worldwide measurements of the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) and to compute related CO2 fluxes using wind speed and well-constrained gas transfer velocity relationships. However, due to the large spatio-temporal variability of pCO2, budgeting CO2 fluxes requires huge data sets which cover satisfactorily both spatial and temporal changes.

The Chemical Oceanography Unit of the University of Liège aims to fill two crucial gaps in the present knowledge of global CO2 fluxes: the ignored Coastal Ocean and the remote Southern Ocean thought as the "last oceanic sink". In parallel, the Chemical Oceanography Unit also investigates the potential feed-backs between the oceanic biota and climate and their impact on global CO2 cycling.

 

results in other services

  • Cruise summary report (CSR)
  • Marine environmental research project (EDMERP)
  • Marine environmental databases (EDMED)

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EDMO record id
451
Collating centre
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Management Unit of North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models, Belgian Marine Data Centre (MUMM-BMDC)
Latest update
16 September 2020 11:11:13 AM