The Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences

2027 Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences

January 12-15, 2027

Revisiting air-sea CO2 exchange in the global ocean biogeochemistry model
ID:640 Oral Presentation

2027-01-14 09:30 (China Standard Time)

Session:Session 56 - SOLAS-IGAC: Multidisciplinary perspectives on air-sea interactions and their impacts on coastal sustainability

Abstract

The global ocean is a major sink of anthropogenic CO2 emissions and plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle. The Global Carbon Budget (GCB) reports the air-sea CO2 flux estimates from both global ocean biogeochemistry models (GOBMs) and observation-based sea surface CO2 (fCO2) products. Recent studies suggest that air-sea gas exchange processes such as the cool-skin effect, rainfall, bubble-mediated transfer, and high-frequency atmospheric variability have been neglected in the flux estimate, but can substantially alter the observation-based  global ocean CO2 sink estimate. However, their impacts on global ocean biogeochemistry models remain poorly quantified. Here, we implement an enhanced air-sea gas exchange framework in the NEMO-PISCES model and assess the effects of these processes on simulated ocean CO2 uptake. By comparing model sensitivities with previously reported observation-based estimates, we evaluate the extent to which ocean biogeochemical feedbacks modify the response of the ocean carbon sink to air-sea exchange processes. Our results provide new insights into the role of near-surface air–sea interactions in shaping model-based estimates of the contemporary ocean carbon sink.

Speaker
Yuanxu Dong Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Sorbonne Université, CNRS

Author
Yuanxu Dong Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, LMD-IPSL, École Normale Supérieure, Université PSL, École polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris France

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