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ISASO2: recent trends and regional patterns of ocean dissolved oxygen change
Nicolas Kolodziejczyk
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Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, LOPS laboratory, IUEM, Plouzané, France
Esther Portela
Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, LOPS laboratory, IUEM, Plouzané, France
Virginie Thierry
Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, LOPS laboratory, IUEM, Plouzané, France
Annaig Prigent
Univ. Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, LOPS laboratory, IUEM, Plouzané, France
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Oceanic dissolved oxygen (DO) is fundamental for ocean biogeochemical cycles and marine life. To ease the computation of the ocean oxygen budget from in situ DO data, mapping of data on a regular 3D grid is useful. Here, we present a new DO gridded product from the Argo database. We compare it with existing DO mapping from a historical dataset. We suggest that the ocean has generally been losing oxygen since the 1980s, but large interannual and regional variabilities should be considered.
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