Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/K015613/1
BIOLOGICAL CARBON PUMP ASSESSMENT USING THE TRANSPORT MATRIX METHOD AND GLOBAL NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS (BATMAN)
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr A Martin, NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), Science and Technology
- Co-Investigator:
- Prof. I Allen, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth Marine Lab
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr A Yool, National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Khatiwala, University of Oxford, Earth Sciences
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor SA Henson, National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor CM Moore, University of Southampton, Sch of Ocean and Earth Science
- Grant held at:
- NOC (Up to 31.10.2019), Science and Technology
- Science Area:
- Marine
- Overall Classification:
- Marine
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Ocean Circulation
- Technology and method dev
- Abstract:
- Marine life plays a key role in the Earth's climate. To grow, marine algae extract almost as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere annually as all plants on land. This 'primary production' fuels the marine ecosystem. The resulting waste sinks, as 'export', sequestering large amounts of carbon at depth, away from the atmosphere. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels can be very sensitive to small changes in the depth at which recycling (or 'remineralisation') of this waste back into nutrients takes place. We have sufficient observations of sinking material to investigate the process of remineralisation but far from enough to produce a global map that could be used to test climate models. We do have such maps for nutrient distributions, that are the consequence of the remineralisation, but traditionally models take too long to run to allow such comparisons. A new technique (the Transport Matrix method) provides a means of running models much faster. In tandem with this technical development, the mechanisms controlling the process of export have become much better understood in recent years. It is timely therefore to unite these recent advances to ensure that climate models accurately capture this key process of the Earth system.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/K015613/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed (Research Programmes)
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Process-Based Model Eval
This grant award has a total value of £393,703
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DI - T&S | DA - Other Directly Allocated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £8,294 | £137,097 | £58,199 | £57,519 | £118,804 | £13,284 | £503 |
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