antarcticocean.ai

#Antarctic Ocean AI Meta

#Antarctic Ocean | Southern ocean | Encircles Antarctica | Waters south of 60° S latitude | Covers ca. 21.96 million square kilometers | The fourth largest ocean basin | Antarctic Circumpolar Current (AAC) flows through it | ACC significantly influences global ocean circulation by connecting Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans | Average depth of approximately 3,270 meters (10,728 feet) | Maximum depth of 7,434 meters (24,390 feet) at Factorian Deep

#Oceans are facing record-breaking extreme events

#Deep and intense marine heatwaves

#Glacier Monitoring

#unexpected phytoplankton blooms

#Ocean Monitoring Indicators | Monitoring trends and variations in changing ocean | Providing overview of current state of global ocean

#Accelerating ice loss

#Ice-shelf thinning

#West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) melting

#Relative sea-level reconstruction

#Ocean currents

#Climate-modeling

#Simulating solar radiation at surface

#Organics Analytical Chemistry

#Organic polar compounds analyses

#Solar irradiance

#Blue Economy

#Sustainable ocean management

#Aquatic biodiversity

#Marine monitoring

#Drilling ice cores

#Tracing chemicals and particles trapped in ice layers

#Ice age cycles

#Geophysical surveys

#Ice Core Sciences (IPICS)

#Ice forecasting

#Ice dynamics

#Polar operations

#Benthic biology on seafloor

#Optimising data collection processes

#Autonomous marine vehicles

#Digital Twin of Antarctic Ocean

#Humpback whale

#Prompt adherence

#Cryosphere

#Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) | One nautical mile in radius | Hub of biodiversity | Made up of organisms especially vulnerable to bottom-fishing gear | Refuge for life forms stressed by rapidly warming ocean

#Trawler

#Antarctic blue whale

#Industrial fishing

#Antarctic krill

#Warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) flow

#Undercurrents

#Ice shelves

#Antarctic Ice Sheet

#Under-ice shelf cavities

#Volcanism of Antarctica

#Strombolian erupts

#Persistent lava lake

#Mount Erebus

#Fast ice | Stationary sea ice remaining attached to coastline or among grounded icebergs | Covering extensive areas of Southern Ocean

#Algae growing in fast ice

#Algae inside ice | Invisible to satellite or airborne instruments

#Numerical sea-ice model | Simulating growth of algae in Antarctic fast ice | Representing ice columns as layers | Snow layer

#Diatom | Microscopic algae

#Coastal Antarctic ecosystems

#Sea ice biogeochemistry

#Sea levels rise | As water absorbs heat, its molecules move faster and spread apart, causing water to expand and occupy more volume | Phenomenon accounts for a significant portion of global sea level rise, alongside contributions from melting glaciers and ice sheets

#Georegistration

#Citizen science

#Photos helping researchers better understand the health of Antarctica penguin colonies

#Agentic AI | Artificial intelligence systems with a degree of autonomy, enabling them to make decisions, take actions, and learn from experiences to achieve specific goals, often with minimal human intervention | Agentic AI systems are designed to operate independently, unlike traditional AI models that rely on predefined instructions or prompts | Reinforcement learning (RL) | Deep neural network (DNN) | Multi-agent system (MAS) | Goal-setting algorithm | Adaptive learning algorithm | Agentic agents focus on autonomy and real-time decision-making in complex scenarios | Ability to determine intent and outcome of processes | Planning and adapting to changes | Ability to self-refine and update instructions without outside intervention | Full autonomy requires creativity and ability to anticipate changing needs before they occur proactively | Agentic AI benefits Industry 4.0 facilities monitoring machinery in real time, predicting failures, scheduling maintenance, reducing downtime, and optimizing asset availability, enabling continuous process optimization, minimizing waste, and enhancing operational efficiency

#Ocean processes

#Melting sea ice

#Sea ice levels reached lows not seen since Copernicus satellite records began | Losses corresponding to an area three times the size of France

#Rising ocean heat content | Profound impacts on almost every aspect of the ocean, from physical processes, to biogeochemical balances, to marine biodiversity and ecosystems

#Earth energy imbalance | Grew by 0.29 watts per square metre per decade between 1993-2022 | Earth is out of energy balance | Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are trapping excess heat and preventing it from being released into space | Heat building-up of heat in the Earth climate system | Most of building-up is absorbed by ocean

#Ocean surface heat | Satellite measurements of gravity and surface height | Space geodesy | Accurate, long term and broad estimates of changes in amount of heat stored in ocean