Assessment of the current ocean carbon sink and its implications for climate change and mitigation Arne Körtzinger IFM-GEOMAR Kiel, Germany Most relevant.

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Assessment of the current ocean carbon sink and its implications for climate change and mitigation Arne Körtzinger IFM-GEOMAR Kiel, Germany Most relevant CWPs for this topic: Surface pCO 2 (VOS) Network: Schuster et al. Repeat Hydrography: Fukasawa/Hood et al. OceanSITES: Send et al. CO 2 sensors: Byrne et al. Oxygen-ARGO: Gruber et al.

IPCC, 2007: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 996 pp. The canonical picture of the anthropogenically perturbed global carbon cycle for the 1990s

We are not talking peanuts here... Oceanic sink = 2.2 Gt C yr -1 = 22 Mt CO 2 d -1 = 15,000 t CO 2 hr -1 = 250 t CO 2 s -1 The global fleet of liquid gas tankers (~150 ships with a capacity of ~ m 3 each*) can just about carry the daily CO 2 production! At a 10 day roundtrip we would need ten times the existing global fleet to dump 2.2 Gt C yr -1. *in 2003

Takahashi et al. (2009), DSR II 56, Iconic Map I: Global net air-sea CO 2 flux (= anthropogenic + pre-industrial flux) Climatological picture based on 3 million measurements taken during (referenced to year 2000) Net uptake of CO 2 : 1.6 Pg C yr -1 Net uptake of anthropogenic CO 2 : 2.0 Pg C yr -1

Iconic Map I: „Voluntary Observing Ship“ network that forms its basis (CWP: Schuster et al.)

Benjamin Pfeil, CarboOcean Number of pCO 2 measurements in the Atlantic per year Number of pCO 2 measurements in the Atlantic per month How can we sustain such a large global effort in the long term? OceanObs‘99

Iconic map II: Oceanic storage of anthropogenic CO 2 after Sabine et al. (2004), Science 305, Column inventory of anthropogenic CO 2 in the ocean (mol m -2 ) Net uptake of anthropogenic CO 2 ( ): 118 ± 19 Pg C yr -1 = 48% of the emissions

Iconic map II: Repeat-hydrography network that forms its basis JGOFS/WOCE CO 2 survey (  GLODAP) Repeat Hydrography CO 2 survey (  GOSHIP) Iconic map II: Repeat-hydrography network that forms its basis (CWP: Mukasawa et al.) How can we sustain such a large global effort in the long term?

How to detect decadal change against in a system with high internal variability? t DIC

Ocean/coastal time-series sites Dore et al. (2009), PNAS 106, 12235– Hawaii Ocean Time Series (ALOHA) Bates et al. (2007), JGR 112.x

Ocean CO 2 sink: Will it continue to grow as expected? LeQuéré et al. (2007), Science 316, Example: Attenuation of Southern Ocean CO 2 sink

Marine biota: Are we in for surprises? Riebesell, Körtzinger, and Oschlies, PNAS, in press. Responses to ocean deoxygenation?

Ocean deoxygenation: Increasing evidence of a near-ubiquitous trend Keeling, Körtzinger, and Gruber, Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci., in press.

ARGO – an opportunity not to be missed by the carbon community (CWP: Gruber et al.) We are ready to add an oxygen component to ARGO

SOPRAN, Sub-project 3.5 (Körtzinger & Heimann) Sea-Air fluxes of CO 2 and O 2 in the eastern tropical Atlantic: a combined atmosphere-ocean perspective CO 2 Sensor O2 Sensor Are we also there with CO 2 sensor technology? – Not really … (CWP: Byrne et al.) We urgently need better CO 2 sensors

The way ahead seems clear … We need to continue (and perhaps expand) the VOS-based surface pCO 2 network, continue the repeat hydrography program, continue the existing time-series stations and add new ones in critical, undersampled regions (e.g. tropics), Implement oxygen as an official fully-fledged component of the ARGO project, Improve CO 2 sensor technology to encompass autonomous observation platforms (e.g., float & gliders) But how can all this be sustained in the long term?

ICOS – Integrated Carbon Observation System (ESFRI) ICOS Vision: To have in place by 2014 an operational network of observation platforms covering Europe and the North Atlantic to provide daily regional greenhouse gas budgets at 10 km resolution ~40 ecosystem stations ~40 atmospheric stations ~10 VOS lines ~ 7 oceanic/coastal time-series site central facilities for analyses, calibration and quality control ~ long term operation (>20 years)

Ocean network (VOS lines + time-series sites) ICOS – Integrated Carbon Observation System (ESFRI)