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Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010
Following the 2009 Pacific El Niño, a warm event developed in the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic during boreal spring of 2010 promoted a significant increase in the CO(2) fugacity of surface waters. This, together with the relaxation of the prevailing wind fields, resulted in the reversal o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28134309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41694 |
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author | Ibánhez, J. Severino P. Flores, Manuel Lefèvre, Nathalie |
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description | Following the 2009 Pacific El Niño, a warm event developed in the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic during boreal spring of 2010 promoted a significant increase in the CO(2) fugacity of surface waters. This, together with the relaxation of the prevailing wind fields, resulted in the reversal of the atmospheric CO(2) absorption capacity of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic. In the region 0–30°N, 62–10°W, this climatic event led to the reversal of the climatological CO(2) sink of −29.3 Tg C to a source of CO(2) to the atmosphere of 1.6 Tg C from February to May. The highest impact of this event is verified in the region of the North Equatorial Current, where the climatological CO(2) uptake of −22.4 Tg for that period ceased during 2010 (1.2 Tg C). This estimate is higher than current assessments of the multidecadal variability of the sea-air CO(2) exchange for the entire North Atlantic (20 Tg year(−1)), and highlights the potential impact of the increasing occurrence of extreme climate events over the oceanic CO(2) sink and atmospheric CO(2) composition. |
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spelling | pubmed-52783572017-02-03 Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 Ibánhez, J. Severino P. Flores, Manuel Lefèvre, Nathalie Sci Rep Article Following the 2009 Pacific El Niño, a warm event developed in the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic during boreal spring of 2010 promoted a significant increase in the CO(2) fugacity of surface waters. This, together with the relaxation of the prevailing wind fields, resulted in the reversal of the atmospheric CO(2) absorption capacity of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic. In the region 0–30°N, 62–10°W, this climatic event led to the reversal of the climatological CO(2) sink of −29.3 Tg C to a source of CO(2) to the atmosphere of 1.6 Tg C from February to May. The highest impact of this event is verified in the region of the North Equatorial Current, where the climatological CO(2) uptake of −22.4 Tg for that period ceased during 2010 (1.2 Tg C). This estimate is higher than current assessments of the multidecadal variability of the sea-air CO(2) exchange for the entire North Atlantic (20 Tg year(−1)), and highlights the potential impact of the increasing occurrence of extreme climate events over the oceanic CO(2) sink and atmospheric CO(2) composition. Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5278357/ /pubmed/28134309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41694 Text en Copyright © 2017, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Ibánhez, J. Severino P. Flores, Manuel Lefèvre, Nathalie Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title | Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title_full | Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title_fullStr | Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title_full_unstemmed | Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title_short | Collapse of the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic CO(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
title_sort | collapse of the tropical and subtropical north atlantic co(2) sink in boreal spring of 2010 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5278357/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28134309 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep41694 |
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