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04/07/25
UExP-FNN-U full surface ocean carbonate system dataset
A joint dataset developed between two European Space Agency (ESA) projects; Ocean Carbon for Climate (OC4C; https://oceancarbon4climate.org/) and Satellite-based observations of Carbon in the Ocean: Pools, Fluxes and Exchanges (SCOPE; https://oceancarbon-scope.org/). The dataset extends the University of Exeter Physics Feed Forward Neural Network with Uncertainties (UExP-FNN-U) approach, originally developed within the EU project OceanICU (https://ocean-icu.eu/), to provide estimates of the full surface ocean carbonate system. Within the development there was a focus on climate quality datasets from the ESA Climate Change Initiative (https://climate.esa.int/en/), a careful consideration of the sea surface temperatures used to maintain consistency with the air-sea CO2 flux calculations, and a comprehensive uncertainty budget. These data are available open source on Zenodo (Ford et al. 2025; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15784426), and a manuscript is in preparation to describe the dataset (Ford et al. in prep).
UEx-L-Eddies dataset : Global long-lived mesoscale eddies dataset, available on https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15689876
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Peer reviewed publications
10/10/25 – Fay, A. R., Heimdal, T. H., Acquaviva, V., Shaum, A. P., McKinley, G. A.: Sensitivity of Ocean Carbon Sink Estimates to Rare Observations – Fay – 2025 – Geophysical Research Letters – Wiley Online Library https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL117961
25/12/25 – Dong, Y., Yang, M., Bell, T.G. et al. Asymmetric bubble-mediated gas transfer enhances global ocean CO2 uptake. Nat Commun 16, 10595 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66652-5
21/01/26 – Ford, D. J., Kulk, G., Sathyendranath, S., and Shutler, J. D.: Decadal and spatially complete global surface chlorophyll-a data record from satellite and BGC-Argo observations, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 18, 569–584, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-569-2026, 2026.