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  Strengthening seasonal marine CO2 variations due to increasing atmospheric CO2

Landschützer, P., Gruber, N., Bakker, D. C. E., Stemmler, I., & Six, K. D. (2018). Strengthening seasonal marine CO2 variations due to increasing atmospheric CO2. Nature Climate Change, 8, 146-150. doi:10.1038/s41558-017-0057-x.

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Landschützer, Peter1, Author                 
Gruber, Nicolas2, Author
Bakker, Dorothee C. E.2, Author
Stemmler, Irene3, Author           
Six, Katharina D.3, 4, Author           
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1Director’s Research Group OES, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society, ou_913553              
2external, ou_persistent22              
3Ocean Biogeochemistry, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society, ou_913556              
4B 3 - Marine and Coastal Systems, Research Area B: Climate Manifestations and Impacts, The CliSAP Cluster of Excellence, External Organizations, Bundesstraße 53, 20146 Hamburg, DE, ou_1863483              

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 Abstract: The increase of atmospheric CO2 (ref. 1 ) has been predicted to impact the seasonal cycle of inorganic carbon in the global ocean2,3, yet the observational evidence to verify this prediction has been missing. Here, using an observation-based product of the oceanic partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) covering the past 34 years, we find that the winter-to-summer difference of the pCO2 has increased on average by 2.2 ± 0.4 μatm per decade from 1982 to 2015 poleward of 10° latitude. This is largely in agreement with the trend expected from thermodynamic considerations. Most of the increase stems from the seasonality of the drivers acting on an increasing oceanic pCO2 caused by the uptake of anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere. In the high latitudes, the concurrent ocean-acidification-induced changes in the buffer capacity of the ocean enhance this effect. This strengthening of the seasonal winter-to-summer difference pushes the global ocean towards critical thresholds earlier, inducing stress to ocean ecosystems and fisheries 4 . Our study provides observational evidence for this strengthening seasonal difference in the oceanic carbon cycle on a global scale, illustrating the inevitable consequences of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2017-122018-01-292018-01-29
 Publication Status: Issued
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1038/s41558-017-0057-x
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Title: Nature Climate Change
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 8 Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 146 - 150 Identifier: ISBN: 1758-6798