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Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink

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On 9/13/15 8:06 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> How are they important, spamming shit head?
>

   I glad you asked, jimp. CO2 uptake is an important area to understand.

   Try reading the papers, jimp.

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   Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink
> http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/two-papers-highlight-southern-ocean-co2-sink.html

 > The importance of the Southern Ocean as a sink for atmospheric carbon
 > dioxide has been underlined by two new papers. Here we present
 > separate reports on this research from the AGU and ETH Zurich

 > Abstracts
 >
 > Here is the abstract of the GRL paper: We present a 13-year
 > (2002–2015) semi-monthly time-series of the partial pressure of CO2
 > in surface water (pCO2surf) and other carbonate system parameters
 > from the Drake Passage. This record shows a clear increase in the
 > magnitude of the sea-air pCO2 gradient, indicating strengthening of
 > the CO2 sink in agreement with recent large-scale analyses of the
 > world oceans. The rate of increase in pCO2surf north of the Antarctic
 > Polar Front (APF) is similar to the atmospheric pCO2 (pCO2atm) trend,
 > whereas the pCO2surf increase south of the APF is slower than the
 > pCO2atm trend. The high-frequency surface observations indicate that
 > an absence of a winter increase in total CO2 (TCO2) and cooling
 > summer sea surface temperatures are largely responsible for
 > increasing CO2 uptake south of the APF. Muted winter trends in
 > surface TCO2 also provide temporary stability to the carbonate system
 > that is already close to undersaturation with respect to aragonite.
 >
 > Here is the absract of the Science paper: Several studies have
 > suggested that the carbon sink in the Southern Ocean—the ocean’s
 > strongest region for the uptake of anthropogenic CO2 —has weakened in
 > recent decades. We demonstrated, on the basis of multidecadal
 > analyses of surface ocean CO2 observations, that this weakening trend
 > stopped around 2002, and by 2012, the Southern Ocean had regained its
 > expected strength based on the growth of atmospheric CO2. All three
 > Southern Ocean sectors have contributed to this reinvigoration of the
 > carbon sink, yet differences in the processes between sectors exist,
 > related to a tendency toward a zonally more asymmetric atmospheric
 > circulation. The large decadal variations in the Southern Ocean
 > carbon sink suggest a rather dynamic ocean carbon cycle that varies
 > more in time than previously recognized.
 >
 > Here is the Science Editor's coment on the Science paper:
 >
 > Uptake uptick
 >
 > Has global warming slowed the uptake of atmospheric CO2 by the
 > Southern Ocean? Landschützer et al. say no (see the Perspective by
 > Fletcher). Previous work suggested that the strength of the Southern
 > Ocean carbon sink fell during the 1990s. This raised concerns that
 > such a decline would exacerbate the rise of atmospheric CO2 and
 > thereby increase global surface air temperatures and ocean acidity.
 > The newer data show that the Southern Ocean carbon sink strengthened
 > again over the past decade, which illustrates the dynamic nature of
 > the process and alleviates some of the anxiety about its earlier
 > weakening trend.
 >
 > Citations
 >
 > Recent evidence for a strengthening CO2sink in the Southern Ocean
 > from carbonate system measurements in the Drake Passage (2002-2015)
 > by David R. Munro, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Taro Takahashi, Britton B.
 > Stephens, Timothy Newberger and Colm Sweeney, published in
 > Geophysical Research Letters, 2015; DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065194
 >
 > The Reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean Carbon Sink by Landschützer
 > P, Gruber N, Haumann FA, Rödenbeck C, Bakker DCE, van Heuven S,
 > Hoppema M, Metzl N, Sweeney C, Takahashi T, Tilbrook B, and
 > Wankinkhof R. published in Science, 2015; DOI:
 > 10.1126/science.aab2620
 >


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Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 19:01 -0500
  Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-14 00:34 +0000
    Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 19:59 -0500
      Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-14 01:06 +0000
        Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 20:42 -0500
          Re: Two Papers Highlight Southern Ocean CO2 Sink jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-14 02:23 +0000

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