Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene - Current Phase: III

ACRONYM
SOPRAN
Title
Surface Ocean Processes in the Anthropocene - Current Phase: III
General information
The atmosphere’s composition determines the Earth‘s climate and habitability. This composition is, in turn, strongly determined by biological, physical and chemical processes occurring within the oceans. For example, gas exchange across the enormous surface area of the global ocean, together with ocean circulation and biology, plays a crucially important role in controlling the present-day level and growth rate of CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere.
Start
February, 2010
End
January, 2016
Funding (total)
2812000
Funding (GEOMAR)
-
Funding body / Programme
    BMBF /
Coordination
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany
Partners
Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven (AWI)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG)
Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung, Warnemünde (IOW)
Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung, Leipzig (IfT)
Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Jena (MPI-BGC)
Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz (MPI-C)
Universität Bremen (UniHB)
Universität Hamburg (UniHH)
Universität Heidelberg (UniHeidelberg)