Air-ice carbon pathways inferred from a sea ice tank experiment
International audience Given rapid sea ice changes in the Arctic Ocean in the context of climate warming, better constraints on the role of sea ice in CO 2 cycling are needed to assess the capacity of polar oceans to buffer the rise of atmospheric CO 2 concentration. Air-ice CO 2 fluxes were measure...
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International audience Given rapid sea ice changes in the Arctic Ocean in the context of climate warming, better constraints on the role of sea ice in CO 2 cycling are needed to assess the capacity of polar oceans to buffer the rise of atmospheric CO 2 concentration. Air-ice CO 2 fluxes were measured continuously using automated chambers from the initial freezing of a sea ice cover until its decay during the INTERICE V experiment at the Hamburg Ship Model Basin. Cooling seawater prior to sea ice formation acted as a sink for atmospheric CO 2 , but as soon as the first ice crystals started to form, sea ice turned to a source of CO 2 , which lasted throughout the whole ice growth phase. Once ice decay was initiated by warming the atmosphere, the sea ice shifted back again to a sink of CO 2 . Direct measurements of outward ice-atmosphere CO 2 fluxes were consistent with the depletion of dissolved inorganic carbon in the upper half of sea ice. Combining measured air-ice CO 2 fluxes with the partial pressure of CO 2 in sea ice, we determined strongly different gas transfer coefficients of CO 2 at the air-ice interface between the growth and the decay phases (from 2.5 to 0.4 mol m −2 d −1 atm −1 ). A 1D sea ice carbon cycle model including gas physics and carbon biogeochemistry was used in various configurations in order to interpret the observations. All model simulations correctly predicted the sign of the air-ice flux. By contrast, the amplitude of the flux was much more variable between the different simulations. In none of the simulations was the dissolved gas pathway strong enough to explain the large fluxes during ice growth. This pathway weakness is due to an intrinsic limitation of ice-air fluxes of dissolved CO 2 by the slow transport of dissolved inorganic carbon in the ice. The best means we found to explain the high air-ice carbon fluxes during ice growth is an intense yet uncertain gas bubble efflux, requiring sufficient bubble nucleation and upwards rise. We therefore call for further investigation of ... |
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Air-ice carbon pathways inferred from a sea ice tank experiment |
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ftuniparissaclay:oai:HAL:hal-01406226v1 2024-09-15T17:54:20+00:00 Air-ice carbon pathways inferred from a sea ice tank experiment Kotovitch, Marie Moreau, Sébastien Zhou, Jiayun Vancoppenolle, Martin Dieckmann, Gerhard S. Evers, K.-U. Linden, F., van Der Thomas, David N. Tison, Jean-Louis Delille, Bruno Unité d'Océanographie Chimique Interfacultary Center for Marine Research (MARE) Université de Liège-Université de Liège Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Hobart (IMAS) University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia (UTAS) Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO R&D ) 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) Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI) Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) School of Ocean Sciences Menai Bridge Bangor University Laboratoire de Glaciologie Bruxelles Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) 2016 https://hal.science/hal-01406226 https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000112 en eng HAL CCSD University of California Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.12952/journal.elementa.000112 hal-01406226 https://hal.science/hal-01406226 doi:10.12952/journal.elementa.000112 EISSN: 2325-1026 Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene https://hal.science/hal-01406226 Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2016, 4, pp.000112. ⟨10.12952/journal.elementa.000112⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2016 ftuniparissaclay https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000112 2024-08-01T23:49:24Z International audience Given rapid sea ice changes in the Arctic Ocean in the context of climate warming, better constraints on the role of sea ice in CO 2 cycling are needed to assess the capacity of polar oceans to buffer the rise of atmospheric CO 2 concentration. Air-ice CO 2 fluxes were measured continuously using automated chambers from the initial freezing of a sea ice cover until its decay during the INTERICE V experiment at the Hamburg Ship Model Basin. Cooling seawater prior to sea ice formation acted as a sink for atmospheric CO 2 , but as soon as the first ice crystals started to form, sea ice turned to a source of CO 2 , which lasted throughout the whole ice growth phase. Once ice decay was initiated by warming the atmosphere, the sea ice shifted back again to a sink of CO 2 . Direct measurements of outward ice-atmosphere CO 2 fluxes were consistent with the depletion of dissolved inorganic carbon in the upper half of sea ice. Combining measured air-ice CO 2 fluxes with the partial pressure of CO 2 in sea ice, we determined strongly different gas transfer coefficients of CO 2 at the air-ice interface between the growth and the decay phases (from 2.5 to 0.4 mol m −2 d −1 atm −1 ). A 1D sea ice carbon cycle model including gas physics and carbon biogeochemistry was used in various configurations in order to interpret the observations. All model simulations correctly predicted the sign of the air-ice flux. By contrast, the amplitude of the flux was much more variable between the different simulations. In none of the simulations was the dissolved gas pathway strong enough to explain the large fluxes during ice growth. This pathway weakness is due to an intrinsic limitation of ice-air fluxes of dissolved CO 2 by the slow transport of dissolved inorganic carbon in the ice. The best means we found to explain the high air-ice carbon fluxes during ice growth is an intense yet uncertain gas bubble efflux, requiring sufficient bubble nucleation and upwards rise. We therefore call for further investigation of ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Ocean Sea ice Archives ouvertes de Paris-Saclay Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 4 |