Physical pathways for carbon transfers between the surface mixed layer and the ocean interior
International audience Although they are key components of the surface ocean carbon budget, physical processes inducing carbon fluxes across the mixed‐layer base, i.e., subduction and obduction, have received much less attention than biological processes. Using a global model analysis of the preindu...
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International audience Although they are key components of the surface ocean carbon budget, physical processes inducing carbon fluxes across the mixed‐layer base, i.e., subduction and obduction, have received much less attention than biological processes. Using a global model analysis of the preindustrial ocean, physical carbon fluxes are quantified and compared to the other carbon fluxes in and out of the surface mixed layer, i.e., air‐sea CO2gas exchange and sedimentation of biogenic material. Model‐based carbon obduction and subduction are evaluated against independent data‐based estimates to the extent that was possible. We find that climatological physical fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) are two orders of magnitude larger than the other carbon fluxes and vary over the globe at smaller spatial scale. At temperate latitudes, the subduction of DIC and to a much lesser extent (<10%) the sinking of particles maintain CO2undersaturation, whereas DIC is obducted back to the surface in the tropical band (75%) and Southern Ocean (25%). At the global scale, these two large counter‐balancing fluxes of DIC amount to +275.5 PgC yr−1 for the supply by obduction and −264.5 PgC yr−1 for the removal by subduction which is ∼ 3 to 5 times larger than previous estimates. Moreover, we find that subduction of organic carbon (dissolved and particulate) represents ∼ 20% of the total export of organic carbon: at the global scale, we evaluate that of the 11 PgC yr−1 of organic material lost from the surface every year, 2.1 PgC yr−1 is lost through subduction of organic carbon. Our results emphasize the strong sensitivity of the oceanic carbon cycle to changes in mixed‐layer depth, ocean currents, and wind. |
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ftsorbonneuniv:oai:HAL:hal-01495303v1 2024-10-06T13:52:58+00:00 Physical pathways for carbon transfers between the surface mixed layer and the ocean interior Lévy, Marina Bopp, Laurent Karleskind, Pierre Resplandy, Laure Éthé, Christian Pinsard, Françoise Couplage physique-biogéochimie-carbone (PHYBIOCAR) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) 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)) 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)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-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) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-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)) Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 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) ALTRAN OUEST-ATLANTIDE Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego) University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) University of California (UC)-University of California (UC) Ingéneurie et calcul scientifique (INCAS) 2013 https://hal.science/hal-01495303 https://hal.science/hal-01495303/document https://hal.science/hal-01495303/file/gbc.20092.pdf https://doi.org/10.1002/gbc.20092 en eng HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/gbc.20092 hal-01495303 https://hal.science/hal-01495303 https://hal.science/hal-01495303/document https://hal.science/hal-01495303/file/gbc.20092.pdf doi:10.1002/gbc.20092 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 0886-6236 EISSN: 1944-8224 Global Biogeochemical Cycles https://hal.science/hal-01495303 Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2013, 27 (4), pp.1001 - 1012. ⟨10.1002/gbc.20092⟩ [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftsorbonneuniv https://doi.org/10.1002/gbc.20092 2024-09-06T00:03:58Z International audience Although they are key components of the surface ocean carbon budget, physical processes inducing carbon fluxes across the mixed‐layer base, i.e., subduction and obduction, have received much less attention than biological processes. Using a global model analysis of the preindustrial ocean, physical carbon fluxes are quantified and compared to the other carbon fluxes in and out of the surface mixed layer, i.e., air‐sea CO2gas exchange and sedimentation of biogenic material. Model‐based carbon obduction and subduction are evaluated against independent data‐based estimates to the extent that was possible. We find that climatological physical fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) are two orders of magnitude larger than the other carbon fluxes and vary over the globe at smaller spatial scale. At temperate latitudes, the subduction of DIC and to a much lesser extent (<10%) the sinking of particles maintain CO2undersaturation, whereas DIC is obducted back to the surface in the tropical band (75%) and Southern Ocean (25%). At the global scale, these two large counter‐balancing fluxes of DIC amount to +275.5 PgC yr−1 for the supply by obduction and −264.5 PgC yr−1 for the removal by subduction which is ∼ 3 to 5 times larger than previous estimates. Moreover, we find that subduction of organic carbon (dissolved and particulate) represents ∼ 20% of the total export of organic carbon: at the global scale, we evaluate that of the 11 PgC yr−1 of organic material lost from the surface every year, 2.1 PgC yr−1 is lost through subduction of organic carbon. Our results emphasize the strong sensitivity of the oceanic carbon cycle to changes in mixed‐layer depth, ocean currents, and wind. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean HAL Sorbonne Université Southern Ocean Global Biogeochemical Cycles 27 4 1001 1012 |