Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation
International audience Climate modes such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), representing internal variability of the climate system, influence the ocean carbon cycle and may mask trends in the sink of anthropogenic carbon. Here, utilising control runs of six fully coupled Earth System Models,...
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International audience Climate modes such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), representing internal variability of the climate system, influence the ocean carbon cycle and may mask trends in the sink of anthropogenic carbon. Here, utilising control runs of six fully coupled Earth System Models, the response of the ocean carbon cycle to the NAO is quantified. The dominating response, a seesaw pattern between the subtropical gyre and the subpolar Northern Atlantic, is instantaneous (<3 months) and dynamically consistent over all models and with observations for a range of physical and biogeochemical variables. All models show asymmetric responses to NAO+ and NAO− forcing, implying non-linearity in the connection between NAO and the ocean carbon cycle. However, model differences in regional expression and magnitude and conflicting results with regard to air–sea flux and CO2 partial pressure remain. Typical NAO-driven variations are ±10 mmol/m3 in the surface concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity and ±8 ppm in the air–sea partial pressure difference. The effect on the basin-wide air–sea CO2 flux is small due to compensating fluxes on the sub-basin scale. Two models show a reduced carbon sink in the north-eastern North Atlantic during negative NAO phases, qualitatively in accordance with the observed decline during a phase of predominantly negative NAO. The results indicate that wind-driven dynamics are the main driver of the response to the NAO, which – via vertical mixing, upwelling and the associated entrainment of dissolved inorganic carbon and nutrients – leave an imprint on surface pCO2 and the air–sea CO2 flux as well as on biological export production, pH and the calcium carbonate saturation state. The biogeochemical response to the NAO is predominantly governed by vertical exchange between the surface and the thermocline; large-scale horizontal transport mechanisms are of minor importance |
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Keller, Kathrin M. Joos, Fortunat Raible, Christoph C. Cocco, Valentina Frölicher, Thomas L. Dunne, John P. Gehlen, Marion Bopp, Laurent Orr, James C. Tjiputra, Jerry Heinze, Christoph Segschneider, Joachim Roy, Tilla Metzl, Nicolas |
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Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation |
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Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation |
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Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation |
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Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation |
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Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation |
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variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the north atlantic oscillation |
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ftinsu:oai:HAL:hal-01111200v1 2024-04-28T08:30:06+00:00 Variability of the ocean carbon cycle in response to the North Atlantic Oscillation Keller, Kathrin M. Joos, Fortunat Raible, Christoph C. Cocco, Valentina Frölicher, Thomas L. Dunne, John P. Gehlen, Marion Bopp, Laurent Orr, James C. Tjiputra, Jerry Heinze, Christoph Segschneider, Joachim Roy, Tilla Metzl, Nicolas Climate and Environmental Physics Bern (CEP) Physikalisches Institut Bern Universität Bern / University of Bern (UNIBE)-Universität Bern / University of Bern (UNIBE) Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) Universität Bern / University of Bern (UNIBE) Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program Princeton (AOS Program) NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-Princeton University National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Modelling the Earth Response to Multiple Anthropogenic Interactions and Dynamics (MERMAID) Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)) Uni Research Climate Uni Research Ltd Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) Department of Biological Sciences Bergen (BIO / UiB) University of Bergen (UiB)-University of Bergen (UiB) Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (MPI-M) Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité) Couplage physique-biogéochimie-carbone (PHYBIOCAR) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Équipe CO2 (E-CO2) European Project: 264879,EC:FP7:ENV,FP7-ENV-2010,CARBOCHANGE(2011) 2012 https://hal.science/hal-01111200 https://hal.science/hal-01111200/document https://hal.science/hal-01111200/file/Variability%20of%20the%20ocean%20carbon%20cycle%20in%20response%20to%20the%20North%20Atlantic%20Oscillation.pdf https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18738 en eng HAL CCSD Taylor & Francis info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18738 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/264879/EU/Changes in carbon uptake and emissions by oceans in a changing climate/CARBOCHANGE hal-01111200 https://hal.science/hal-01111200 https://hal.science/hal-01111200/document https://hal.science/hal-01111200/file/Variability%20of%20the%20ocean%20carbon%20cycle%20in%20response%20to%20the%20North%20Atlantic%20Oscillation.pdf doi:10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18738 WOS: 000312272000001 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0280-6509 EISSN: 1600-0889 Tellus B - Chemical and Physical Meteorology https://hal.science/hal-01111200 Tellus B - Chemical and Physical Meteorology, 2012, 64 (1), pp.18738. ⟨10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18738⟩ carbon cycle ocean biogeochemistry climate modeling ocean-atmosphere interaction [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2012 ftinsu https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.18738 2024-04-05T00:40:08Z International audience Climate modes such as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), representing internal variability of the climate system, influence the ocean carbon cycle and may mask trends in the sink of anthropogenic carbon. Here, utilising control runs of six fully coupled Earth System Models, the response of the ocean carbon cycle to the NAO is quantified. The dominating response, a seesaw pattern between the subtropical gyre and the subpolar Northern Atlantic, is instantaneous (<3 months) and dynamically consistent over all models and with observations for a range of physical and biogeochemical variables. All models show asymmetric responses to NAO+ and NAO− forcing, implying non-linearity in the connection between NAO and the ocean carbon cycle. However, model differences in regional expression and magnitude and conflicting results with regard to air–sea flux and CO2 partial pressure remain. Typical NAO-driven variations are ±10 mmol/m3 in the surface concentration of dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity and ±8 ppm in the air–sea partial pressure difference. The effect on the basin-wide air–sea CO2 flux is small due to compensating fluxes on the sub-basin scale. Two models show a reduced carbon sink in the north-eastern North Atlantic during negative NAO phases, qualitatively in accordance with the observed decline during a phase of predominantly negative NAO. The results indicate that wind-driven dynamics are the main driver of the response to the NAO, which – via vertical mixing, upwelling and the associated entrainment of dissolved inorganic carbon and nutrients – leave an imprint on surface pCO2 and the air–sea CO2 flux as well as on biological export production, pH and the calcium carbonate saturation state. The biogeochemical response to the NAO is predominantly governed by vertical exchange between the surface and the thermocline; large-scale horizontal transport mechanisms are of minor importance Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Institut national des sciences de l'Univers: HAL-INSU Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 64 1 18738 |