Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic
The oceanic sink of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is an important part of the global carbon budget. Understanding uncertainties in the calculation of this net flux into the ocean is crucial for climate research. One of the sources of the uncertainty within this calculation is the parameterization chosen fo...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:4661a1fff372488dadbac6f441067c1a 2023-05-15T14:49:54+02:00 Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic I. Wrobel J. Piskozub 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1091-2016 https://doaj.org/article/4661a1fff372488dadbac6f441067c1a EN eng Copernicus Publications http://www.ocean-sci.net/12/1091/2016/os-12-1091-2016.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1812-0784 https://doaj.org/toc/1812-0792 1812-0784 1812-0792 doi:10.5194/os-12-1091-2016 https://doaj.org/article/4661a1fff372488dadbac6f441067c1a Ocean Science, Vol 12, Iss 5, Pp 1091-1103 (2016) Geography. Anthropology. Recreation G Environmental sciences GE1-350 article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1091-2016 2022-12-31T00:56:46Z The oceanic sink of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is an important part of the global carbon budget. Understanding uncertainties in the calculation of this net flux into the ocean is crucial for climate research. One of the sources of the uncertainty within this calculation is the parameterization chosen for the CO 2 gas-transfer velocity. We used a recently developed software toolbox, called the FluxEngine (Shutler et al., 2016), to estimate the monthly air–sea CO 2 fluxes for the extratropical North Atlantic Ocean, including the European Arctic, and for the global ocean using several published quadratic and cubic wind speed parameterizations of the gas-transfer velocity. The aim of the study is to constrain the uncertainty caused by the choice of parameterization in the North Atlantic Ocean. This region is a large oceanic sink of CO 2 , and it is also a region characterized by strong winds, especially in winter but with good in situ data coverage. We show that the uncertainty in the parameterization is smaller in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic than in the global ocean. It is as little as 5 % in the North Atlantic and 4 % in the European Arctic, in comparison to 9 % for the global ocean when restricted to parameterizations with quadratic wind dependence. This uncertainty becomes 46, 44, and 65 %, respectively, when all parameterizations are considered. We suggest that this smaller uncertainty (5 and 4 %) is caused by a combination of higher than global average wind speeds in the North Atlantic (> 7 ms −1 ) and lack of any seasonal changes in the direction of the flux direction within most of the region. We also compare the impact of using two different in situ p CO 2 data sets (Takahashi et al. (2009) and Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT) v1.5 and v2.0, for the flux calculation. The annual fluxes using the two data sets differ by 8 % in the North Atlantic and 19 % in the European Arctic. The seasonal fluxes in the Arctic computed from the two data sets disagree with each other possibly due to insufficient ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic North Atlantic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Ocean Science 12 5 1091 1103 |
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The oceanic sink of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is an important part of the global carbon budget. Understanding uncertainties in the calculation of this net flux into the ocean is crucial for climate research. One of the sources of the uncertainty within this calculation is the parameterization chosen for the CO 2 gas-transfer velocity. We used a recently developed software toolbox, called the FluxEngine (Shutler et al., 2016), to estimate the monthly air–sea CO 2 fluxes for the extratropical North Atlantic Ocean, including the European Arctic, and for the global ocean using several published quadratic and cubic wind speed parameterizations of the gas-transfer velocity. The aim of the study is to constrain the uncertainty caused by the choice of parameterization in the North Atlantic Ocean. This region is a large oceanic sink of CO 2 , and it is also a region characterized by strong winds, especially in winter but with good in situ data coverage. We show that the uncertainty in the parameterization is smaller in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic than in the global ocean. It is as little as 5 % in the North Atlantic and 4 % in the European Arctic, in comparison to 9 % for the global ocean when restricted to parameterizations with quadratic wind dependence. This uncertainty becomes 46, 44, and 65 %, respectively, when all parameterizations are considered. We suggest that this smaller uncertainty (5 and 4 %) is caused by a combination of higher than global average wind speeds in the North Atlantic (> 7 ms −1 ) and lack of any seasonal changes in the direction of the flux direction within most of the region. We also compare the impact of using two different in situ p CO 2 data sets (Takahashi et al. (2009) and Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT) v1.5 and v2.0, for the flux calculation. The annual fluxes using the two data sets differ by 8 % in the North Atlantic and 19 % in the European Arctic. The seasonal fluxes in the Arctic computed from the two data sets disagree with each other possibly due to insufficient ... |
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Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic |
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Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic |
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Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic |
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Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic |
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Effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the European Arctic |
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effect of gas-transfer velocity parameterization choice on air–sea co 2 fluxes in the north atlantic ocean and the european arctic |
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