Machine learning estimates of oceanic anthropogenic carbon (Cant)

“Machine learning, like all technology, does not always make the world a better place, but it can” (A. Moltzau, 2019 [20]).

Background

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution (1860), anthropogenic activities have increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) from 280 ppm to over 400 ppm [6]. The global ocean has sequestered roughly a third of this anthropogenic CO2 (Cant, Fig.1), limiting the impacts on the global climate [3] such as the increase in the Earth’s mean…