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| العنوان: |
A detectable change in the air-sea CO2 flux estimate from sailboat measurements. |
| المؤلفون: |
Behncke, Jacqueline, Landschützer, Peter, Tanhua, Toste |
| المصدر: |
Scientific Reports; 2/9/2024, Vol. 14 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SAILBOATS, PARTIAL pressure, SURFACE pressure, VOYAGES around the world, SUMMER |
| مستخلص: |
The sailboat Seaexplorer collected underway sea surface partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) data for 129 days (2018–2021), including an Antarctic circumnavigation. By comparing ensembles of data-driven air-sea CO2 fluxes computed with and without sailboat data and applying a detection algorithm, we show that these sailboat observations significantly increase the regional carbon uptake in the North Atlantic and decrease it in the Southern Ocean. While compensating changes in both basins limit the global effect, the Southern Ocean–particularly frontal regions (40°S–60°S) during summertime—exhibited the largest air-sea CO2 flux changes, averaging 20% of the regional mean. Assessing the sensitivity of the air-sea CO2 flux to measurement uncertainty, the results stay robust within the expected random measurement uncertainty (± 5 μatm) but remain undetectable with a measurement offset of 5 µatm. We thus conclude that sailboats fill essential measurement gaps in remote ocean regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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