Wind-driven changes in the ocean carbon sink

Swart, N. C.; Fyfe, J. C.; Saenko, O. A.; Eby, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6107-2014

Articles | Volume 11, issue 21

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6107-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6107-2014

© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 21

Research article

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13 Nov 2014

Research article |

| 13 Nov 2014

Wind-driven changes in the ocean carbon sink

N. C. Swart, J. C. Fyfe, O. A. Saenko, and M. Eby

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RC C3357: 'Review of “Wind driven changes in the ocean carbon sink” by Swart et al., submitted to Biogeosciences Discuss.', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jul 2014
- AC C5299: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Neil Swart, 23 Sep 2014
RC C4137: 'Review of Swart et al. 2014; Wind driven changes in the ocean carbon sink', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Aug 2014
- AC C5306: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Neil Swart, 23 Sep 2014

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Neil Swart on behalf of the Authors (23 Sep 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (24 Sep 2014) by Leticia Cotrim da Cunha

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Sep 2014)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Sep 2014)

ED: Publish as is (01 Oct 2014) by Leticia Cotrim da Cunha

AR by Neil Swart on behalf of the Authors (02 Oct 2014)

Short summary

Estimates of ocean carbon uptake from ocean biogeochemical models are key to our understanding of the global carbon cycle. Such estimates suggest that ocean carbon uptake is decreasing due to climate change, and particularly due to strengthening of the Southern Hemisphere winds. We show that these model-based estimates are highly uncertain due to poorly resolved physical processes (mesoscale ocean eddies) and uncertainty in the observed surface wind forcing used to drive the models.