Journal compilation C © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard
The distribution of anthropogenic carbon (Cant) in the oceans is estimated using the transit time distribution (TTD) method applied to global measurements of chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC12). Unlike most other inference methods, the TTD method does not assume a single ventilation time and avoids the la...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.623.5981 2023-05-15T17:34:06+02:00 Journal compilation C © 2006 Blackwell Munksgaard The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2006 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.5981 http://www.jhu.edu/~dwaugh1/papers/Waugh_etal_Tellus2006.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.5981 http://www.jhu.edu/~dwaugh1/papers/Waugh_etal_Tellus2006.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.jhu.edu/~dwaugh1/papers/Waugh_etal_Tellus2006.pdf text 2006 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T15:07:17Z The distribution of anthropogenic carbon (Cant) in the oceans is estimated using the transit time distribution (TTD) method applied to global measurements of chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC12). Unlike most other inference methods, the TTD method does not assume a single ventilation time and avoids the large uncertainty incurred by attempts to correct for the large natural carbon background in dissolved inorganic carbon measurements. The highest concentrations and deepest penetration of anthropogenic carbon are found in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The estimated total inventory in 1994 is 134 Pg-C. To evaluate uncertainties the TTD method is applied to output from an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) and compared the results to the directly simulated Cant. Outside of the Southern Ocean the predicted Cant closely matches the directly simulated distribution, but in the Southern Ocean the TTD concentrations are biased high due to the assumption of ’constant disequilibrium’. The net result is a TTD overestimate of the global inventory by about 20%. Accounting for this bias and other centred uncertainties, an inventory range of 94–121 Pg-C is obtained. This agrees with the inventory of Sabine et al., who applied the C ∗ method to the same data. There are, however, significant differences in the spatial distributions: The TTD estimates are smaller than C ∗ in the upper ocean and larger at depth, consistent with biases expected in C ∗ given its assumption of a single parcel ventilation time. 1. Text North Atlantic Southern Ocean Unknown Southern Ocean |
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The distribution of anthropogenic carbon (Cant) in the oceans is estimated using the transit time distribution (TTD) method applied to global measurements of chlorofluorocarbon-12 (CFC12). Unlike most other inference methods, the TTD method does not assume a single ventilation time and avoids the large uncertainty incurred by attempts to correct for the large natural carbon background in dissolved inorganic carbon measurements. The highest concentrations and deepest penetration of anthropogenic carbon are found in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans. The estimated total inventory in 1994 is 134 Pg-C. To evaluate uncertainties the TTD method is applied to output from an ocean general circulation model (OGCM) and compared the results to the directly simulated Cant. Outside of the Southern Ocean the predicted Cant closely matches the directly simulated distribution, but in the Southern Ocean the TTD concentrations are biased high due to the assumption of ’constant disequilibrium’. The net result is a TTD overestimate of the global inventory by about 20%. Accounting for this bias and other centred uncertainties, an inventory range of 94–121 Pg-C is obtained. This agrees with the inventory of Sabine et al., who applied the C ∗ method to the same data. There are, however, significant differences in the spatial distributions: The TTD estimates are smaller than C ∗ in the upper ocean and larger at depth, consistent with biases expected in C ∗ given its assumption of a single parcel ventilation time. 1. |
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