Narrowing the uncertainty for deep-ocean injection efficiency

Orr, James C.; Aumont, Olivier; Yool, Andrew; Plattner, Gian-Kasper; Joos, Fortunat; Maier-Reimer, Ernst; Weirig, Marie-France; Schlitzer, Reiner; Caldeira, Ken; Wickett, Michael E.; Matear, Richard J.; Mignone, Kryan K.; Sarmiento, Jorge L. (2005). Narrowing the uncertainty for deep-ocean injection efficiency. In: Rubin, E. S.; Keith, D. W.; Gilboy, C.F.; Wilson, M.; Morris, T.; Gale, T.; Thambimuthu, K. (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, 5-9 September 2004, Vancouver, Canada. Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies: Vol. II (pp. 1481-1485). Elsevier 10.1016/B978-008044704-9/50168-3

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The chapter proposes a basic ground rule for future studies of ocean injection efficiency: to be credible they must also demonstrate the associated model's skill in simulating the global inventory of GFG-11 and the global mean for radiocarbon in the deep ocean. A model that performs well in regards to both those constraints will be more likely to simulate reasonable global injection efficiencies. Nonetheless, efficiencies for a given injection site in coarse resolution models could be biased. For instance, the majority of injection sites will be located on eastern or western boundaries, which have known problems in coarse resolution models. Furthermore, coarse-resolution grids are unable to resolve important subgrid-scale processes (e.g., eddies, boundary currents, convection). Properly accounting for these processes may affect large-scale transport and could alter model predictions of CO2 sequestration efficiency. Although, global-scale ocean general circulation models are now becoming available which do resolve these processes, their high resolution means that they can only be integrated for relatively short periods, a few decades at most.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Climate and Environmental Physics
UniBE Contributor:	Plattner, Gian-Kasper, Joos, Fortunat
Subjects:	500 Science > 530 Physics
ISBN:	978-0-08-044704-9
Series:	Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies
Publisher:	Elsevier
Language:	English
Submitter:	BORIS Import 2
Date Deposited:	18 Jul 2022 09:35
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:54
Publisher DOI:	10.1016/B978-008044704-9/50168-3
Additional Information:	Proceedings Volume II Part 1
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/160988