Updated climatological mean ΔfCO2 and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global open ocean regions

Fay, Amanda R.; Munro, David R.; McKinley, Galen A.; Pierrot, Denis; Sutherland, Stewart C.; Sweeney, Colm; Wanninkhof, Rik

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2123-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2123-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2123-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 4

Data description paper

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02 May 2024

Data description paper |

| 02 May 2024

Updated climatological mean ΔfCO₂ and net sea–air CO₂ flux over the global open ocean regions

Amanda R. Fay, David R. Munro, Galen A. McKinley, Denis Pierrot, Stewart C. Sutherland, Colm Sweeney, and Rik Wanninkhof

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2123-2024-supplement

Data sets

Climatological distributions of sea-air DeltafCO2 and CO2 flux densities in the Global Surface Ocean (NCEI Accession 0282251) Amanda R. Fay et al. https://doi.org/10.25921/295g-sn13

GHRSST Level 4 AVHRR_OI Global Blended Sea Surface Temperature Analysis from NCEI (GDS versions 1 and 2) for 2004-09-07 (NCEI Accession 0028225) Edward M. Armstrong and NASA JPL PO.DAAC https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0028225

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Presented here is a near-global monthly climatological estimate of the difference between atmosphere and ocean carbon dioxide concentrations. The ocean's ability to take up carbon, both now and in the future, is defined by this difference in concentrations. With over 30 million measurements of surface ocean carbon over the last 40 years and utilization of an extrapolation technique, a mean estimate of surface ocean ΔfCO₂ is presented.