Comment on "Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO 2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change"

Unlike Le Quéré et al . (Reports, 22 June 2007, p. 1735), we do not find a saturating Southern Ocean carbon sink due to recent climate change. In our ocean model, observed wind forcing causes reduced carbon uptake, but heat and freshwater flux forcing cause increased uptake. Our inversions of atmo...

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Published in:Science
Main Authors: Law, Rachel M., Matear, Richard J., Francey, Roger J.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2008
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
Southern Ocean
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1149077
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1149077
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Summary:Unlike Le Quéré et al . (Reports, 22 June 2007, p. 1735), we do not find a saturating Southern Ocean carbon sink due to recent climate change. In our ocean model, observed wind forcing causes reduced carbon uptake, but heat and freshwater flux forcing cause increased uptake. Our inversions of atmospheric carbon dioxide show that the Southern Ocean sink trend is dependent on network choice.

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