Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
My Most Important Video in Years: Oceanic Uptake of CO2 Enhanced by Mesoscale Eddies
Literally, this could save humanities asses. Literally.
Learn how ocean eddies (swirls of water on the order of 100 km to 300 km diameter, moving both clockwise and counterclockwise, typically spinning off from powerful western boundary currents (WBCs) like the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio Current (off Japan), Agulera Current (south of Africa), Eastern Australia Current (off east coast of Australia) and Brazil Current (off east coast of South America) naturally absorb vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
See my last video to learn some crucial ideas on how we can greatly enhance this natural process to sequester vast amounts of CO2 very quickly and very cheaply. youtu.be/MR-9NvW8NI4?si=FD2XYHglVi23cpzw
Lets do it...
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References and Links:
OUC (Ocean University of China) Made New Progress in the Research on the Climatic Effects of Oceanic Mesoscale Dynamics
http://eweb.ouc.edu.cn/2025/0702/c900a502739/page.htm
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Gulf Stream: Northern Hemisphere "Right-Hand Rule" applies: fingers trace ocean current in eddy, and thumb points to vertical water movement direction
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-70.17,38.58,1481/loc=-62.986,38.368
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Kuroshio Extension Current:
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-210.42,35.74,1701
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Eastern Australia Current: Southern Hemisphere "Left-Hand Rule" applies: fingers trace ocean current in eddy, and thumb points to vertical water movement direction
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-205.93,-36.22,2245
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Agulhas Current south of Africa: earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-340.63,-37.28,1289
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Brazil Current of the east coast of South America: earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-52.20,-32.10,851
Earth Nullschool: Pressure of CO2 above the ocean: cannot resolve the WBCs (Western Boundary Currents) sucking up CO2
earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-62.76,43.57,1122/loc=-62.379,39.740
Peer-Reviewed paper in Science Advances:
Oceanic uptake of CO2 enhanced by mesoscale eddies
Authors: Xueyin Li, Bolan Gan, Zhengguang Zhang, Zhimian Cao, Bo Qiu,Zhaohui Chen, Lixin Wu
Abstract
Oceanic mesoscale eddies play a crucial but underexplored role in regulating carbon fluxes and climate change. While they redistribute heat, salt, nutrients, and other tracers, their effects on CO2 uptake remain uncertain. Using observation-based machine learning to estimate CO2 fluxes throughout the lifetimes of thousands of eddies, we show that anticyclonic eddies substantially enhance CO2 uptake on average, while cyclonic eddies marginally di-minish it. This asymmetry yields an overall net increase in CO2 absorption by 9.98 ± 2.28 and 13.82 ± 9.94% in the Kuroshio Extension and Gulf Stream, respectively, major carbon sequestration regions. The primary driver of this enhanced uptake is the downward pumping of dissolved inorganic carbon within anticyclonic eddies. Asymmetric biological responses between anticyclonic and cyclonic eddies contribute to the overall eddy-induced CO 2 flux imbalance. The finding suggests a potential underestimation of the ocean’s capacity for carbon sequestration be-cause of insufficient incorporation of eddies in current observations, emphasizing the need for expanded monitoring in eddy-rich, under sampled regions.
Link to Open-Source Free Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper: science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adt4195
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My Most Important Video in Years: Oceanic Uptake of CO2 Enhanced by Mesoscale Eddies
Literally, this could save humanities asses. Literally.
Learn how ocean eddies (swirls of water on the order of 100 km to 300 km diameter, moving both clockwise and counterclockwise, typically spinning off from powerful western boundary currents (WBCs) like the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio Current (off Japan), Agulera Current (south of Africa), Eastern Australia Current (off east coast of Australia) and Brazil Current (off east coast of South America) naturally absorb vast amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere.
See my last video to learn some crucial ideas on how we can greatly enhance this natural process to sequester vast amounts of CO2 very quickly and very cheaply. youtu.be/MR-9NvW8NI4?si=FD2XYHglVi23cpzw
Lets do it...
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-paul-continue-his-climate-emergency-research
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel. As well as my website, and YouTube, you can find me on Patreon, Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit (multiple climate channels within), Quora, TikTok, Discord, Mastodon, Twitch, Vimeo, Bluesky, TruthSocial, Threads, Substack, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc...
References and Links:
OUC (Ocean University of China) Made New Progress in the Research on the Climatic Effects of Oceanic Mesoscale Dynamics
http://eweb.ouc.edu.cn/2025/0702/c900a502739/page.htm
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Gulf Stream: Northern Hemisphere "Right-Hand Rule" applies: fingers trace ocean current in eddy, and thumb points to vertical water movement direction
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-70.17,38.58,1481/loc=-62.986,38.368
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Kuroshio Extension Current:
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-210.42,35.74,1701
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Eastern Australia Current: Southern Hemisphere "Left-Hand Rule" applies: fingers trace ocean current in eddy, and thumb points to vertical water movement direction
earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-205.93,-36.22,2245
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Agulhas Current south of Africa: earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-340.63,-37.28,1289
Earth Nullschool: Ocean Currents and Eddies associated with the Brazil Current of the east coast of South America: earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=-52.20,-32.10,851
Earth Nullschool: Pressure of CO2 above the ocean: cannot resolve the WBCs (Western Boundary Currents) sucking up CO2
earth.nullschool.net/#current/chem/surface/level/overlay=co2sc/orthographic=-62.76,43.57,1122/loc=-62.379,39.740
Peer-Reviewed paper in Science Advances:
Oceanic uptake of CO2 enhanced by mesoscale eddies
Authors: Xueyin Li, Bolan Gan, Zhengguang Zhang, Zhimian Cao, Bo Qiu,Zhaohui Chen, Lixin Wu
Abstract
Oceanic mesoscale eddies play a crucial but underexplored role in regulating carbon fluxes and climate change. While they redistribute heat, salt, nutrients, and other tracers, their effects on CO2 uptake remain uncertain. Using observation-based machine learning to estimate CO2 fluxes throughout the lifetimes of thousands of eddies, we show that anticyclonic eddies substantially enhance CO2 uptake on average, while cyclonic eddies marginally di-minish it. This asymmetry yields an overall net increase in CO2 absorption by 9.98 ± 2.28 and 13.82 ± 9.94% in the Kuroshio Extension and Gulf Stream, respectively, major carbon sequestration regions. The primary driver of this enhanced uptake is the downward pumping of dissolved inorganic carbon within anticyclonic eddies. Asymmetric biological responses between anticyclonic and cyclonic eddies contribute to the overall eddy-induced CO 2 flux imbalance. The finding suggests a potential underestimation of the ocean’s capacity for carbon sequestration be-cause of insufficient incorporation of eddies in current observations, emphasizing the need for expanded monitoring in eddy-rich, under sampled regions.
Link to Open-Source Free Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper: science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adt4195
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-paul-continue-his-climate-emergency-research
Please subscribe to my YouTube channel. As well as my website, and YouTube, you can find me on Patreon, Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit (multiple climate channels within), Quora, TikTok, Discord, Mastodon, Twitch, Vimeo, Bluesky, TruthSocial, Threads, Substack, Tumblr,...
