SeaFlux: harmonization of air–sea CO2 fluxes from surface pCO2 data products using a standardized approach

Fay, Amanda R.; Gregor, Luke; Landschützer, Peter; McKinley, Galen A.; Gruber, Nicolas; Gehlen, Marion; Iida, Yosuke; Laruelle, Goulven G.; Rödenbeck, Christian; Roobaert, Alizée; Zeng, Jiye

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4693-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4693-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4693-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Review article

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15 Oct 2021

Review article |

| 15 Oct 2021

SeaFlux: harmonization of air–sea CO₂ fluxes from surface pCO₂ data products using a standardized approach

Amanda R. Fay, Luke Gregor, Peter Landschützer, Galen A. McKinley, Nicolas Gruber, Marion Gehlen, Yosuke Iida, Goulven G. Laruelle, Christian Rödenbeck, Alizée Roobaert, and Jiye Zeng

Data sets

SeaFlux data set: Air-sea CO2 fluxes for surface pCO2 data products using a standardised approach Luke Gregor and Amanda R. Fay https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5482547

An improved in situ and satellite SST analysis for climate (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html) R. W. Reynolds, N. A. Rayner, T. M. Smith, D. C. Stokes, and W. Wang https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1609:AIISAS>2.0.CO;2

Short summary

The movement of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the ocean is estimated using surface ocean carbon (pCO₂) measurements and an equation including variables such as temperature and wind speed; the choices of these variables lead to uncertainties. We introduce the SeaFlux ensemble which provides carbon flux maps calculated in a consistent manner, thus reducing uncertainty by using common choices for wind speed and a set definition of "global" coverage.