Modelled natural and excess radiocarbon: Sensitivities to the gas exchange formulation and ocean transport strength

Mueller, S. A.; Joos, F.; Plattner, G.-K.; Edwards, N. R. and Stocker, T. F. (2008). Modelled natural and excess radiocarbon: Sensitivities to the gas exchange formulation and ocean transport strength. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22(GB3011), pp. 1–14.

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Abstract

Observation-based surface ocean Δ¹⁴C distributions and regional inventories for excess, bomb-produced radiocarbon are compared with results of two ocean models of intermediate complexity. By applying current descriptions of the air-sea gas exchange the models produce similar column inventories for excess ¹⁴C among all basins. This result is robust across a wide range of transport parameter settings, but inconsistent with databased inventories. In the absence of evidence of fundamentally different gas exchange mechanisms in the North Atlantic than in the other basins, we infer regional North Atlantic ¹⁴C inventories which are considerably smaller than previous estimates. The results further suggest that the gas exchange velocity field should be reduced by (19 ± 16)%, which corresponds to a global mean air-sea gas transfer rate for CO₂ in seawater of 17.1 ± 3.3 cm/h^-1, to find good agreement of simulated quantities with a range of data-based metrics.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Copyright Holders:	2008 by the American Geophysical Union.
ISSN:	0886-6236
Keywords:	wind-speed; bomb radiocarbon; carbon-dioxide; global ocean; circulation; oxygen; paleoclimate; inventory; fluxes; budget
Academic Unit/Department:	Science > Environment, Earth and Ecosystems
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research (CEPSAR)
Item ID:	25683
Depositing User:	Neil Edwards
Date Deposited:	04 Jan 2011 10:45
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2012 22:01
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/25683

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