About the speaker:

Dr. Yan Bai is professor with the SOED Second Institute of Oceanography, with research interests in ocean carbon cycling and Oceanography, ocean optics and bio-optics Models. The talk focuses on the estimation of air-sea CO2 flux with satellite data. Recent progresses on the ocean carbon research from space will be introduced, with the special attention to the sea surface partial pressure of carbon dioxide ( pCO₂), by using a mechanistic semi-analytic algorithm (MeSAA). Time series of satellite-derived air-sea CO₂ flux in the China Sea and its variability are also presented.