6. Oktober 2025
OC4C data in the Planetary Health Check 2025 report
The latest version of the OC4C- SCOPE full surface ocean carbonate data has been used in a Potsdam Institute report
The Planetary Health Check Report is a yearly report on the state of our planet and is designed to chart humanity’s impact on the Earth System to guide government policy. A special focus on the Ocean's role in the Earth system was placed on this latest edition, and assessed for the first time that Ocean Acidification is the seventh transgressed Planetary Boundary'. https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/
The latest version of the OC4C- SCOPE data UExP-FNN-U v2025-1 data was used for assessing this ocean acidification boundary. Our full data set is available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15801067, and a description of the data set will be published soon in a paper authored by Ford et al.
You can read more about it in the report shown here (p110), section 4.6: Ocean Acidification: https://www.planetaryhealthcheck.org/wp-content/uploads/PlanetaryHealthCheck2025.pdf
Interestingly the second line of evidence that PHC used for this assessment was a paper published by another ESA project (OceanHealth-OA) which was also led by Prof Jamie Shutler of Exeter university and partnered with PML.