{"id":4877,"date":"2024-03-12T19:12:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2024-03-12T19:12:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T19:12:04","slug":"multiscale-variability-of-air-sea-co2-fluxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/multiscale-variability-of-air-sea-co2-fluxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiscale variability of air-sea CO2 fluxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The number of carbon dioxide (CO2<\/sub>) molecules per unit surface area per unit time that enter the ocean surface from the atmosphere is quantified by the air-sea CO2<\/sub> flux (F). These CO2<\/sub> molecules impact many chemical and biological properties within the ocean. Yet, the direct controls on how many molecules can possibly be exchanged between the atmosphere and the ocean surface depend on several environmental factors such as wind speed at some reference height, the amount of CO2<\/sub> molecules in the atmosphere and in the water (or their imbalance \u2206pCO2<\/sub>), the wave height, and sea surface temperature. These environmental factors vary on many time scales such as daily, monthly, seasonal, annual, inter-annual, and decadal. The work demonstrates that the CO2<\/sub> gas exchange is dominated by the wind effect on subseasonal time scales, while on longer time scales, the \u2206pCO2<\/sub> term, closely related to the variability of both atmospheric and oceanic CO2<\/sub>, emerges as a leading driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gu, Y., Katul, G. G., Cassar, N. 2023. Multiscale temporal variability of the global air-sea CO2<\/sub> flux anomaly<\/strong>. JGR Biogeosciences, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2022JG006934.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Global averaged (a) power spectral density E<\/em>(f<\/em>) and (b) energy spectra f E<\/em>(f<\/em>) for CO2<\/sub> flux anomaly from both expressions (FW14<\/sub> and FD18<\/sub>) and relevant variables (anomalies in \u2206pCO2<\/sub>, wind speed, sea surface temperature (SST) and significant wave height (H<\/em>s<\/sub>)) (from mass preserving approach). (c) Spatially averaged power spectral density and (d) energy spectra for FW14<\/sub> and FD18<\/sub> anomalies and relevant factors at each grid (from variance preserving approach).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules per unit surface area per unit time that enter the ocean surface from the atmosphere is quantified by the air-sea CO2 flux (F). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab-news","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9c288-1gF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nicholas.duke.edu\/cassar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}