WCRP Sponsors

Pedro MONTEIRO

Position:
Member
Grand Challenge on Carbon Feedbacks in the Climate System
Scientific Steering Group
 
Dr. Pedro Monteiro is also a member of the Scientific Steering Group of the WCRP Grand Challenge on Carbon Feedbacks in the Climate System. In 2019, he was appointed as a member of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC).

Pedro is a Chief Oceanographer at CSIR with a special interest in the understanding of how and why the ocean biogeochemistry of oxygen and carbon adjusts to climate variability. The use of numerical modelling as experimental platforms to understand scale sensitivities of coupled physics and biogeochemical processes in the Southern Ocean is a key focus.  This is being used to contribute to reducing uncertainty in the long-term evolution of the climate-carbon system in fully coupled Earth Systems models.

Current activities and research interests:

  • Understanding the coupled carbon-climate system in the Southern Ocean and the way that natural and anthropogenic CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean influence the long-term trend of atmospheric CO2
  • Understanding and modeling the incidence and variability of oxygen in shelf and oceanic systems and their ecosystem implications
  • Modeling the biophysical processes which start and maintain phytoplankton new production in upwelling and open ocean systems

For more information and contact details see Pedro Monteiro's contact page.

Pedro MONTEIRO
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
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