Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Année : 2024

Assessment of Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Models for Ocean Carbon Sink Estimates in RECCAP2 and Recommendations for Future Studies

Jens Terhaar
Nadine Goris
Jens Müller
Tim Devries
Nicolas Gruber
Judith Hauck
Fiz Perez

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Abstract The ocean is a major carbon sink and takes up 25%–30% of the anthropogenically emitted CO 2 . A state‐of‐the‐art method to quantify this sink are global ocean biogeochemistry models (GOBMs), but their simulated CO 2 uptake differs between models and is systematically lower than estimates based on statistical methods using surface ocean p CO 2 and interior ocean measurements. Here, we provide an in‐depth evaluation of ocean carbon sink estimates from 1980 to 2018 from a GOBM ensemble. As sources of inter‐model differences and ensemble‐mean biases our study identifies (a) the model setup, such as the length of the spin‐up, the starting date of the simulation, and carbon fluxes from rivers and into sediments, (b) the simulated ocean circulation, such as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Southern Ocean mode and intermediate water formation, and (c) the simulated oceanic buffer capacity. Our analysis suggests that a late starting date and biases in the ocean circulation cause a too low anthropogenic CO 2 uptake across the GOBM ensemble. Surface ocean biogeochemistry biases might also cause simulated anthropogenic fluxes to be too low, but the current setup prevents a robust assessment. For simulations of the ocean carbon sink, we recommend in the short‐term to (a) start simulations at a common date before the industrialization and the associated atmospheric CO 2 increase, (b) conduct a sufficiently long spin‐up such that the GOBMs reach steady‐state, and (c) provide key metrics for circulation, biogeochemistry, and the land‐ocean interface. In the long‐term, we recommend improving the representation of these metrics in the GOBMs.
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hal-04950266 , version 1 (18-02-2025)

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Jens Terhaar, Nadine Goris, Jens Müller, Tim Devries, Nicolas Gruber, et al.. Assessment of Global Ocean Biogeochemistry Models for Ocean Carbon Sink Estimates in RECCAP2 and Recommendations for Future Studies. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2024, 16 (3), ⟨10.1029/2023ms003840⟩. ⟨hal-04950266⟩
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