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| Gruber, Nicolas; Gloor, Manuel; Fletcher Mikaloff, Sara E.; Doney, Scott C.; Dutkiewicz, Stephanie; Follows, Michael J.; Gerber, Markus; Jacobson, Andrew R.; Joos, Fortunat; Lindsay, Keith; Menemenlis, Dimitris; Mouchet, Anne; Mueller, Simon A.; Sarmiento, Jorge L.; Takahashi, Taro. |
| We synthesize estimates of the contemporary net air-sea CO2 flux on the basis of an inversion of interior ocean carbon observations using a suite of 10 ocean general circulation models (Mikaloff Fletcher et al., 2006, 2007) and compare them to estimates based on a new climatology of the air-sea difference of the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO(2)) (Takahashi et al., 2008). These two independent flux estimates reveal a consistent description of the regional distribution of annual mean sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2 for the decade of the 1990s and the early 2000s with differences at the regional level of generally less than 0.1 Pg C a(-1). This distribution is characterized by outgassing in the tropics, uptake in midlatitudes, and comparatively small... |
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Palavras-chave: Air-sea carbon flux; Carbon flux; Anthropogenic CO2. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00253/36415/34953.pdf |
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