Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes
The spatial distribution of the air-sea flux of carbon dioxide is a poor indicator of the underlying ocean circulation and of ocean carbon storage. The weak dependence on circulation arises because mixing-driven changes in solubility-driven and biologically-driven air-sea fluxes largely cancel out....
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| author | A. Gnanadesikan I. Marinov |
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| description | The spatial distribution of the air-sea flux of carbon dioxide is a poor indicator of the underlying ocean circulation and of ocean carbon storage. The weak dependence on circulation arises because mixing-driven changes in solubility-driven and biologically-driven air-sea fluxes largely cancel out. This cancellation occurs because mixing driven increases in the poleward residual mean circulation result in more transport of both remineralized nutrients and heat from low to high latitudes. By contrast, increasing vertical mixing decreases the storage associated with both the biological and solubility pumps, as it decreases remineralized carbon storage in the deep ocean and warms the ocean as a whole. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb85574492824c1a84136517be2478152022-12-22T03:17:23ZengCopernicus PublicationsBiogeosciences1726-41701726-41892011-02-018250551310.5194/bg-8-505-2011Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxesA. GnanadesikanI. MarinovThe spatial distribution of the air-sea flux of carbon dioxide is a poor indicator of the underlying ocean circulation and of ocean carbon storage. The weak dependence on circulation arises because mixing-driven changes in solubility-driven and biologically-driven air-sea fluxes largely cancel out. This cancellation occurs because mixing driven increases in the poleward residual mean circulation result in more transport of both remineralized nutrients and heat from low to high latitudes. By contrast, increasing vertical mixing decreases the storage associated with both the biological and solubility pumps, as it decreases remineralized carbon storage in the deep ocean and warms the ocean as a whole.http://www.biogeosciences.net/8/505/2011/bg-8-505-2011.pdf |
| spellingShingle | A. Gnanadesikan I. Marinov Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes Biogeosciences |
| title | Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes |
| title_full | Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes |
| title_fullStr | Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes |
| title_short | Changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air-sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes |
| title_sort | changes in ocean circulation and carbon storage are decoupled from air sea co sub 2 sub fluxes |
| url | http://www.biogeosciences.net/8/505/2011/bg-8-505-2011.pdf |
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