Pedro M. S. Monteiro

Dr Pedro MS Monteiro is Chief Oceanographer in the Southern Ocean Carbon-Climate Observatory (SOCCO) programme at CSIR in South Africa. He has a special interest in understanding how ocean physics explains the seasonality variability and trends in ocean CO2 under climate variability and change in the Southern Ocean. The design of novel high resolution ocean robotics observing experiments linked to high resolution model runs as well as long term ship-based ocean observing strategies linked to machine learning are key interests. This contributes to improving the parameterization of ESMs towards greater confidence in their projections of the climate – carbon feedbacks and their verification towards improving confidence of projections on ocean sink responses under negative (CDR) and positive emission scenarios. Was a coordinating lead author (CLA) for the Carbon chapter in AR6-WG1 and a member of the JSC of the WCRP.