Identification

Title

Southern Ocean Air-Sea Carbon Fluxes from Aircraft Observations: Modeling Datasets

Abstract

The Southern Ocean plays an important role in determining atmospheric CO2, yet estimates of air-sea CO2 flux for the region diverge widely. We constrain Southern Ocean air-sea CO2 exchange by relating fluxes to horizontal and vertical CO2 gradients in atmospheric transport models and then apply atmospheric observations of these gradients to estimate fluxes. Aircraft-based measurements of the vertical atmospheric CO2 gradient provide robust flux constraints. We find an annual-mean flux of –0.55±0.23 Pg C yr–1 (net uptake) south of 45°S during 2009–2018. This is consistent with the mean of atmospheric-inversion estimates and surface-ocean pCO2-based products, but our data indicate stronger annual-mean uptake than suggested by recent interpretations of profiling-float observations.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/dataset/id/01534217-c94f-45ff-8a16-ba05408df347.html

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name: Southern Ocean Air-Sea Carbon Fluxes from Aircraft Observations: Modeling Datasets

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code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > CARBON AND HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS > CARBON DIOXIDE

EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CARBON DIOXIDE

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

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revision

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2018-03-15

Keyword set

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Other > Models > Cesm > Ncar Community Earth System Model

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

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revision

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2018-03-15

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publication

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2021-08-26

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modified

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2021-08-23

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory

email address

mclong@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - GDEX

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-10-20T10:12:05-06:00

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