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| Gray, Alison R.; Johnson, Kenneth S.; Bushinsky, Seth M.; Riser, Stephen C.; Russell, Joellen L.; Talley, Lynne D.; Wanninkhof, Rik; Williams, Nancy L.; Sarmiento, Jorge L.. |
| Although the Southern Ocean is thought to account for a significant portion of the contemporary oceanic uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2), flux estimates in this region are based on sparse observations that are strongly biased toward summer. Here we present new estimates of Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 fluxes calculated with measurements from biogeochemical profiling floats deployed by the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project during 2014-2017. Compared to ship-based CO2 flux estimates, the float-based fluxes find significantly stronger outgassing in the zone around Antarctica where carbon-rich deep waters upwell to the surface ocean. Although interannual variability contributes, this difference principally stems from the lack of... |
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Palavras-chave: Air-sea carbon flux; SOCCOM. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00673/78485/80837.pdf |
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| Fay, Amanda R.; Lovenduski, Nicole S.; Mckinley, Galen A.; Munro, David R.; Sweeney, Colm; Gray, Alison R.; Landschuetzer, Peter; Stephens, Britton B.; Takahashi, Taro; Williams, Nancy. |
| The Southern Ocean is highly under-sampled for the purpose of assessing total carbon uptake and its variability. Since this region dominates the mean global ocean sink for anthropogenic carbon, understanding temporal change is critical. Underway measurements of pCO(2) collected as part of the Drake Passage Time-series (DPT) program that began in 2002 inform our understanding of seasonally changing air-sea gradients in pCO(2), and by inference the carbon flux in this region. Here, we utilize available pCO(2) observations to evaluate how the seasonal cycle, interannual variability, and long-term trends in surface ocean pCO(2) in the Drake Passage region compare to that of the broader subpolar Southern Ocean. Our results indicate that the Drake Passage is... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00673/78488/80826.pdf |
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| Bushinsky, Seth M.; Landschuetzer, Peter; Roedenbeck, Christian; Gray, Alison R.; Baker, David; Mazloff, Matthew R.; Resplandy, Laure; Johnson, Kenneth S.; Sarmiento, Jorge L.. |
| New estimates of pCO(2) from profiling floats deployed by the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) project have demonstrated the importance of wintertime outgassing south of the Polar Front, challenging the accepted magnitude of Southern Ocean carbon uptake (Gray et al., 2018, ). Here, we put 3.5 years of SOCCOM observations into broader context with the global surface carbon dioxide database (Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas, SOCAT) by using the two interpolation methods currently used to assess the ocean models in the Global Carbon Budget (Le Quere et al., 2018, ) to create a ship-only, a float-weighted, and a combined estimate of Southern Ocean carbon fluxes (<35 degrees S). In our ship-only estimate, we calculate a mean uptake... |
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Palavras-chave: Southern Ocean; Biogeochemical profiling floats; SOCCOM; Global carbon cycle. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00675/78719/81007.pdf |
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