The variable Southern Ocean carbon sink

N Gruber, P Landschützer… - Annual review of marine …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The CO2 uptake by the Southern Ocean (< 35° S) varies substantially on all timescales and
is a major determinant of the variations of the global ocean carbon sink. Particularly strong …

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

DCE Bakker, B Pfeil, CS Landa, N Metzl… - Earth System …, 2016 - essd.copernicus.org
The Surface Ocean CO 2 Atlas (SOCAT) is a synthesis of quality-controlled fCO 2 (fugacity of
carbon dioxide) values for the global surface oceans and coastal seas with regular updates …

Changing biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem implications

SF Henley, EL Cavan, SE Fawcett, R Kerr… - Frontiers in marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in regulating global climate as a major sink for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and in global ocean biogeochemistry by supplying …

Decadal variations and trends of the global ocean carbon sink

P Landschützer, N Gruber… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the variations of the ocean CO2 sink during the past three decades using
global surface ocean maps of the partial pressure of CO2 reconstructed from observations …

Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

S Sitch, P Friedlingstein, N Gruber, SD Jones… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
The land and ocean absorb on average just over half of the anthropogenic emissions of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) every year. These CO 2" sinks" are modulated by climate change and …

Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations

MC Long, BB Stephens, K McKain, C Sweeney… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Southern Ocean plays an important role in determining atmospheric carbon dioxide
(CO2), yet estimates of air-sea CO2 flux for the region diverge widely. In this study, we …

Global trends of ocean CO2 sink and ocean acidification: an observation-based reconstruction of surface ocean inorganic carbon variables

Y Iida, Y Takatani, A Kojima, M Ishii - Journal of Oceanography, 2021 - Springer
Ocean acidification is likely to impact marine ecosystems and human societies adversely
and is a carbon cycle issue of great concern. Projecting the degree of ocean acidification …

Recent variability of the global ocean carbon sink

P Landschützer, N Gruber, DCE Bakker… - Global …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new observation‐based estimate of the global oceanic carbon dioxide (CO2)
sink and its temporal variation on a monthly basis from 1998 through 2011 and at a spatial …

[HTML][HTML] A seamless ensemble-based reconstruction of surface ocean CO and air–sea CO fluxes over the global coastal and open oceans

TTT Chau, M Gehlen, F Chevallier - Biogeosciences, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
We have estimated global air–sea CO 2 fluxes (fg CO 2) from the open ocean to coastal
seas. Fluxes and associated uncertainty are computed from an ensemble-based …