Vietnam News Agency reporters at the United Nations said that the new data system was being implemented by more than 100 scientific team worldwide in International ocean carbon coordination Project (IOCCP).

On 19^th Mar, EOS magazine U.S. Geological Union (AGU), a group of international scientists has published the most comprehensive data on the CO2 measurements oceans and seas in the world in 40 years.

Atlas CO2 on the ocean surface (SOCAT) was synthesized by the 6.3 million global observations from the research commercial vessel over the oceans, ships and other station in the world since 1968.

The data are freely accessible for scientists; CO₂ changes recorded on the surface of oceans and seas under the global transformation are constantly increasing amount of greenhouse gas released into atmosphere.

The international scientists confirmed that the oceans absorbed CO₂, which is beneficial to humans because of reducing the emissions causing the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. However, the effect did acidification, endangered to living organisms in the sea and ocean.

The knowledge of annual and decade changes of CO₂ in the oceans plays an essential role to evaluate the responses and interactions between climate change and carbon cycle in the ocean. SOCAT becomes an invaluable source of knowledge for marine scientific research CO₂ cycle in the oceans as well as its impact to global temperatures.