Trends in marine dissolved oxygen: Implications for ocean circulation changes and the carbon budget

Joos, Fortunat; Plattner, Gian-Kasper; Stocker, Thomas F.; Körtzinger, Arne; Wallace, Douglas W. R (2003). Trends in marine dissolved oxygen: Implications for ocean circulation changes and the carbon budget. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 84(21), pp. 197-201. American Geophysical Union 10.1029/2003EO210001

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Recent measurements and model studies have consistently identified a decreasing trend in the concentration of dissolved O2 in the ocean over the last several decades. This trend has important implications for our understanding of anthropogenic climate change. First, the observed oceanic oxygen changes may be a signal of the beginning of a reorganization of large-scale ocean circulation in response to anthropogenic radiative forcing. Second, the repartitioning of oxygen between the ocean and the atmosphere requires a revision of the current atmospheric carbon budget and the estimates of the terrestrial and oceanic carbon sinks as calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) from measurements of atmospheric O2/N2.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Joos, Fortunat, Stocker, Thomas

Subjects:

500 Science > 530 Physics

ISSN:

0096-3941

Publisher:

American Geophysical Union

Language:

English

Submitter:

BORIS Import 2

Date Deposited:

25 Aug 2021 17:05

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:52

Publisher DOI:

10.1029/2003EO210001

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/158845

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/158845

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