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| Vazquez-rodriguez, Marcos; Touratier, Franck; Lo Monaco, Claire; Waugh, D. W.; Padin, X. A.; Bellerby, R. G. J.; Goyet, Catherine; Metzl, Nicolas; Rios, Aida F.; Perez, Fiz F.. |
| Five of the most recent observational methods to estimate anthropogenic CO2 (C-ant) are applied to a high-quality dataset from five representative sections of the Atlantic Ocean extending from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Between latitudes 60 degrees N-40 degrees S all methods give similar spatial distributions and magnitude of C-ant. However, discrepancies are found in some regions, in particular in the Southern Ocean and Nordic Seas. The differences in the Southern Ocean have a significant impact on the anthropogenic carbon inventories. The calculated total inventories of C-ant for the Atlantic referred to 1994 vary from 48 to 67 Pg (10(15) g) of carbon, with an average of 54 +/- 8 Pg C, which is higher than previous estimates. These results, both the... |
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Palavras-chave: Deep equatorial atlantic; Northern indian-ocean; Water mass ages; CO2; Sea; Transport; Increase; Tracers; Models. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00202/31313/29724.pdf |
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| Perez, Fiz F.; Mercier, Herle; Vazquez-rodriguez, Marcos; Lherminier, Pascale; Velo, Anton; Pardo, Paula C.; Roson, Gabriel; Rios, Aida F.. |
| Uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide in the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean declined rapidly between 1990 and 2006. This reduction in carbon dioxide uptake was related to warming at the sea surface, which-according to model simulations-coincided with a reduction in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. The extent to which the slowdown of this circulation system-which transports warm surface waters to the northern high latitudes, and cool deep waters south-contributed to the reduction in carbon uptake has remained uncertain. Here, we use data on the oceanic transport of volume, heat and carbon dioxide to track carbon dioxide uptake in the subtropical and subpolar regions of the North Atlantic Ocean over the past two decades. We separate... |
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| Ano: 2013 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00135/24625/22712.pdf |
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| Memery, Laurent; Messias, Marie-josé; Arhan, Michel; Billant, Andre; Branellec, Pierre; Mercier, Herle; Alvarez Salgado, Xosé; Gonzales Castro, Carmen; Rios, Aida F.; Roson, Gabriel; Arlen, Linda; Bingler, Linda; Groupe CITHER 2. |
| De janvier à Mars 1994 s'est déroulée la campagne CITHER 2 du programme WOCE-France, dans le but d'étudier les écoulements le long du bord Ouest de l'Océan Atlantique Sud. Les paramètres hydrologiques et géochimiques requis par le Programme Hydrologique de WOCE (WHP) ont été mesurés de la surface au fond, à 235 stations situées le long d'une radiale quasi-méridienne allant de 52° S à 10° N à environ 600 km du talus continental et, transversalement à cette radiale, le long de trois segments allant jusqu'au talus continental à environ 35° S, 13° S, et 10° N. Ce rapport, qui est le troisième volume de la série des recueils de données CITHER 2, présente les mesures des paramètres géochimiques mesurés sur prélèvements d'eau (salinité, oxygène dissous, sels... |
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| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00238/34907/33185.pdf |
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| Zunino, Patricia; Lherminier, Pascale; Mercier, Herle; Padin, Xose A.; Rios, Aida F.; Perez, Fiz F.. |
| The subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA) is important in the global carbon cycle because of the deep water ventilation processes that lead to both high uptake of atmospheric CO2 and large inventories of anthropogenic CO2 (C-ant). Thus, it is crucial to understand its response to increasing anthropogenic pressures. In this work, the budgets of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), C-ant and natural DIC (DICnat) in the eastern SPNA in the 2000s, are jointly analyzed using in situ data. The DICnat budget is found to be in steady state, confirming a long-standing hypothesis from in situ data for the first time. The biological activity is driving the uptake of natural CO2 from the atmosphere. The C-ant increase in the ocean is solely responsible of the DIC storage rate... |
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| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00313/42419/41756.pdf |
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| Garcia-ibanez, Maria Isabel; Zunino, Patricia; Frob, Friederike; Carracedo, Lidia I.; Rios, Aida F.; Mercier, Herle; Olsen, Are; Perez, Fiz F. |
| Repeated hydrographic sections provide critically needed data on and understanding of changes in basin-wide ocean CO2 chemistry over multi-decadal timescales. Here, high-quality measurements collected at twelve cruises carried out along the same track between 1991 and 2015 have been used to determine long-term changes in ocean CO2 chemistry and ocean acidification in the Irminger and Iceland basins of the North Atlantic Ocean. Trends were determined for each of the main water masses present and are discussed in the context of the basin-wide circulation. The pH has decreased in all water masses of the Irminger and Iceland basins over the past 25 years with the greatest changes in surface and intermediate waters (between −0.0010 ± 0.0001 and −0.0018 ± 0.0001... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00343/45443/44968.pdf |
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| Garcia-ibanez, Maribel I.; Pardo, Paula C.; Carracedo, Lidia; Mercier, Herle; Lherminier, Pascale; Rios, Aida F.; Perez, Fiz F.. |
| We discuss the distributions and transports of the main water masses in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre (NASPG) for the mean of the period 2002–2010 (OVIDE sections 2002–2010 every other year), as well as the inter-annual variability of the water mass structure from 1997 (4x and METEOR sections) to 2010. The water mass structure of the NASPG, quantitatively assessed by means of an Optimum MultiParameter analysis (with 14 water masses), was combined with the velocity fields resulting from previous studies using inverse models to obtain the water mass volume transports. We also evaluate the relative contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) of the main water masses characterizing the NASPG, identifying the water masses that... |
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| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00268/37968/36867.pdf |
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| Daniault, Nathalie; Mercier, Herle; Lherminier, Pascale; Sarafanov, Artem; Falina, Anastasia; Zunino, Patricia; Perezf, Fiz F.; Rios, Aida F.; Ferron, Bruno; Huck, Thierry; Thierry, Virginie; Gladyshev, Sergey. |
| The decadal mean circulation in the northern North Atlantic was assessed for the early 21st century from repeated ship-based measurements along the Greenland-Portugal OVIDE line, from satellite altimetry and from earlier reported transports across 59.5°N and at the Greenland-Scotland sills. The remarkable quantitative agreement between all data sets allowed us to draw circulation pathways with a high level of confidence. The North Atlantic Current (NAC) system is composed of three main branches, referred to as the northern, central and southern branches, which were traced from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR), to the Irminger Sea, the Greenland-Scotland Ridge and the subtropical gyre. At OVIDE, the northern and central branches of the NAC fill the whole water... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00345/45569/45177.pdf |
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| Rodgers, Keith B.; Key, Robert M.; Gnanadesikan, Anand; Sarmiento, Jorge L.; Aumont, Olivier; Bopp, Laurent; Doney, Scott C.; Dunne, John P.; Glover, David M.; Ishida, Akio; Ishii, Masao; Jacobson, Andrew R.; Lo Monaco, Claire; Maier-reimer, Ernst; Mercier, Herle; Metzl, Nicolas; Perez, Fiz F.; Rios, Aida F.; Wanninkhof, Rik; Wetzel, Patrick; Winn, Christopher D.; Yamanaka, Yasuhiro. |
| Here we use observations and ocean models to identify mechanisms driving large seasonal to interannual variations in dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and dissolved oxygen (O-2) in the upper ocean. We begin with observations linking variations in upper ocean DIC and O-2 inventories with changes in the physical state of the ocean. Models are subsequently used to address the extent to which the relationships derived from short-timescale (6 months to 2 years) repeat measurements are representative of variations over larger spatial and temporal scales. The main new result is that convergence and divergence (column stretching) attributed to baroclinic Rossby waves can make a first-order contribution to DIC and O-2 variability in the upper ocean. This results in... |
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URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/11107/7415.pdf |
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