Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2
International audience The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO 2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here, we show observations indicating s...
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ftuniversailles:oai:HAL:hal-00763285v1 2024-05-19T07:44:36+00:00 Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 Watson, Andrew J. Schuster, Ute Bakker, Dorothee C. E. Bates, Nicholas R. Corbière, Antoine González-Dávila, Melchor Friedrich, Tobias Hauck, Judith Heinze, Christoph Johannessen, Truls Körtzinger, Arne Metzl, Nicolas Olafsson, Jon Olsen, Are Oschlies, Andreas Padin, X. Antonio Pfeil, Benjamin Santana-Casiano, J. Magdalena Steinhoff, Tobias Telszewski, Maciej Rios, Aida F. Wallace, Douglas W. R. Wanninkhof, Rik H. 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)-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) 2009-12 https://hal.science/hal-00763285 https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIENCE.1177394 en eng HAL CCSD American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1126/SCIENCE.1177394 hal-00763285 https://hal.science/hal-00763285 BIBCODE: 2009Sci.326.1391W doi:10.1126/SCIENCE.1177394 ISSN: 0036-8075 EISSN: 1095-9203 Science https://hal.science/hal-00763285 Science, 2009, 326 (5958), pp.1391-1393. ⟨10.1126/SCIENCE.1177394⟩ [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2009 ftuniversailles https://doi.org/10.1126/SCIENCE.1177394 2024-04-25T00:14:31Z International audience The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO 2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here, we show observations indicating substantial variability in the CO 2 uptake by the North Atlantic on time scales of a few years. Further, we use measurements from a coordinated network of instrumented commercial ships to define the annual flux into the North Atlantic, for the year 2005, to a precision of about 10%. This approach offers the prospect of accurately monitoring the changing ocean CO 2 sink for those ocean basins that are well covered by shipping routes. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: HAL-UVSQ Science 326 5958 1391 1393 |
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International audience The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO 2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here, we show observations indicating substantial variability in the CO 2 uptake by the North Atlantic on time scales of a few years. Further, we use measurements from a coordinated network of instrumented commercial ships to define the annual flux into the North Atlantic, for the year 2005, to a precision of about 10%. This approach offers the prospect of accurately monitoring the changing ocean CO 2 sink for those ocean basins that are well covered by shipping routes. |
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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)-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) |
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Watson, Andrew J. Schuster, Ute Bakker, Dorothee C. E. Bates, Nicholas R. Corbière, Antoine González-Dávila, Melchor Friedrich, Tobias Hauck, Judith Heinze, Christoph Johannessen, Truls Körtzinger, Arne Metzl, Nicolas Olafsson, Jon Olsen, Are Oschlies, Andreas Padin, X. Antonio Pfeil, Benjamin Santana-Casiano, J. Magdalena Steinhoff, Tobias Telszewski, Maciej Rios, Aida F. Wallace, Douglas W. R. Wanninkhof, Rik H. |
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Watson, Andrew J. Schuster, Ute Bakker, Dorothee C. E. Bates, Nicholas R. Corbière, Antoine González-Dávila, Melchor Friedrich, Tobias Hauck, Judith Heinze, Christoph Johannessen, Truls Körtzinger, Arne Metzl, Nicolas Olafsson, Jon Olsen, Are Oschlies, Andreas Padin, X. Antonio Pfeil, Benjamin Santana-Casiano, J. Magdalena Steinhoff, Tobias Telszewski, Maciej Rios, Aida F. Wallace, Douglas W. R. Wanninkhof, Rik H. |
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Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 |
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Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 |
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Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 |
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Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 |
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Tracking the Variable North Atlantic Sink for Atmospheric CO 2 |
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tracking the variable north atlantic sink for atmospheric co 2 |
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