Created a foundation Former Google chief executive officer Eric Shamidt will fund a project to raise money for a project to transmit drone boats into the rough sea of Antarctica that can help solve an important climate puzzle. The project is part of a suit announced today from Shamidt Sciences, which was created to focus on projects to deal with the research of Shamidt and his wife Wendy Global Carbon Cycle. It will spend $ 45 million in the next five years to fund these projects, including Antarctic research.
“The Ocean is truly a critical climate control service for all of us,” said Galen McKinley, a professor of environmental science at the University of Columbia and one of the project scientists of the University, and we do not understand it. “This information is really how encouraged that these data can really pull the community of people together who is trying to understand and determine the amount of carbon sync in the sea.”
The world’s largest carbon sinks in the oceans, Absorbent About one -third of the CO2 people keep the atmosphere every year. One of the most important carbon drowning is the bodies of water surrounding Antarctica. In spite of Second minimum Among the five oceans in the world, responsible for the southern Ocean About 40 percent All sea-based carbon dioxide absorption.
Scientists, however, just know that the South Ocean is surprisingly about such a successful carbon sync. What is more, climate models that successfully predict sea carbon absorption elsewhere in the world when it comes to the southern Ocean is significantly deviated.
One of the biggest problems of what is going on in the South Ocean is just a lack of data. Thanks to it as part of the extreme conditions of this region. Due to incredibly strong currents around Antarctica and dangerous winds, the drake passage between South America and Argentina is one of the most difficult edges of the sea for ships; It is more rugar in winter months. Crisp says there is also a specially pronounced cloud cover of the sea, which makes satellite observations difficult.
“The South Ocean is really far away, so we didn’t do a lot of science there,” McKinley said. “It’s a very large ocean, and this is this dramatic and scary place.”
