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TI Contribution of Sea-State Dependent Bubbles to Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Fluxes
BT 
AF REICHIL, B. G.
   DEIKE, L.
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C1 Princeton Univ, Program Atmospner & Ocean Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
   NOAA, Geophys Fluid Dynam Lab, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA.
   Princeton Univ, Dept Mech & Aerosp Engn, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
   Princeton Univ, Princeton Environm Inst, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
C2 UNIV PRINCETON, USA
   NOAA, USA
   UNIV PRINCETON, USA
   UNIV PRINCETON, USA
IF 4.497
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00676/78838/81092.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION
AB Breaking surface ocean waves produce bubbles that are important for air-sea gas exchanges, particularly during high winds. In this study we estimate air-sea CO2 fluxes globally using a new approach that considers the surface wave contribution to gas fluxes. We estimate that 40% of the net air-sea CO2 flux is via bubbles, with annual, seasonal, and regional variability. When compared to traditional gas-flux parameterization methods that consider the wind speed alone, we find high-frequency (daily to weekly) differences in the predicted gas flux using the sea-state dependent method at spatial scales related to atmospheric weather (10 to 100 km). Seasonal net differences in the air-sea CO2 flux due to the sea-state dependence can exceed 20%, with the largest values associated with North Atlantic and North Pacific winter storms. These results confirm that bubbles are important for global gas-flux dynamics and that sea-state dependent parameterizations may improve performance of global coupled models. 
PY 2020
PD MAY
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 47
IS 9
UT 000536639500015
DI 10.1029/2020GL087267
ID 78838
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