Articles | Volume 19, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4287-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-4287-2022
Research article
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09 Sep 2022
Research article |  | 09 Sep 2022

Identifying the biological control of the annual and multi-year variations in South Atlantic air–sea CO2 flux

Daniel J. Ford, Gavin H. Tilstone, Jamie D. Shutler, and Vassilis Kitidis

Data sets

MODIS-Aqua Level 3 Mapped Chlorophyll Data Version R2018.0 NASA OBPG https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUA/MODIS/L3M/CHL/2018

MODIS-Aqua Level 3 Mapped Photosynthetically Available Radiation Data Version R2018.0 NASA OBPG https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUA/MODIS/L3M/PAR/2018

MODIS Aqua Level 3 SST Thermal IR Daily 4 km Daytime v2014.0 NASA OBPG https://doi.org/10.5067/MODSA-1D4D4

Copernicus Marine Modelling Service global ocean physics reanalysis product (GLORYS12V1) CMEMS https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00021

ERA5 monthly averaged data on single levels from 1979 to present H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, G. Biavati, A. Hor\'{a}nyi, J. Mu\~{n}oz Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, D. Dee, and J.-N. Th\'{e}paut https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f17050d7

An observation-based global monthly gridded sea surface pCO_2 product from 1982 onward and its monthly climatology (NCEI Accession 0160558) Peter Landschützer, Nicolas Gruber, and Dorothee C. E Bakker https://doi.org/10.7289/v5z899n6

Interpolated surface ocean carbon dioxide partial pressure for the South Atlantic Ocean (2002--2018) using different biological parameters Daniel J. Ford, Gavin H. Tilstone, Jamie D. Shutler, and Vassilis Kitidis https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935936

A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) (https://www.socat.info/index.php/version-2020/) Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Benjamin Pfeil, Camilla S. Landa, Nicolas Metzl, Kevin M. O'Brien, Are Olsen, Karl Smith, Cathy Cosca, Sumiko Harasawa, Stephen D. Jones, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Ute Schuster, Tobias Steinhoff, Colm Sweeney, Taro Takahashi, Bronte Tilbrook, Chisato Wada, Rik Wanninkhof, Simone R. Alin, Carlos F. Balestrini, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Alejandro A. Bianchi, Frédéric Bonou, Jacqueline Boutin, Yann Bozec, Eugene F. Burger, Wei-Jun Cai, Robert D. Castle, Liqi Chen, Melissa Chierici, Kim Currie, Wiley Evans, Charles Featherstone, Richard A. Feely, Agneta Fransson, Catherine Goyet, Naomi Greenwood, Luke Gregor, Steven Hankin, Nick J. Hardman-Mountford, Jérôme Harlay, Judith Hauck37, Mario Hoppema, Matthew P. Humphreys, Christopher W. Hunt, Betty Huss, J. Severino P. Ibánhez, Truls Johannessen, Ralph Keeling, Vassilis Kitidis, Arne Körtzinger, Alex Kozyr, Evangelia Krasakopoulou, Akira Kuwata, Peter Landschützer, Siv K. Lauvset, Nathalie Lefèvre, Claire Lo Monaco, Ansley Manke, Jeremy T. Mathis, Liliane Merlivat, Frank J. Millero, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, David R. Munro, Akihiko Murata, Timothy Newberger, Abdirahman M. Omar, Tsuneo Ono, Kristina Paterson, David Pearce, Denis Pierrot, Lisa L. Robbins, Shu Saito, Joe Salisbury, Reiner Schlitzer, Bernd Schneider, Roland Schweitzer, Rainer Sieger, Ingunn Skjelvan, Kevin F. Sullivan, Stewart C. Sutherland, Adrienne J. Sutton, Kazuaki Tadokoro, Maciej Telszewski, Matthias Tuma, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Doug Vandemark, Brian Ward, Andrew J. Watson, and Suqing Xu https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-383-2016

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This study explores the seasonal, inter-annual, and multi-year drivers of the South Atlantic air–sea CO2 flux. Our analysis showed seasonal sea surface temperatures dominate in the subtropics, and the subpolar regions correlated with biological processes. Inter-annually, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation correlated with the CO2 flux by modifying sea surface temperatures and biological activity. Long-term trends indicated an important biological contribution to changes in the air–sea CO2 flux.
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