Climatically-active gases in the Eastern Boundary Upwelling and Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) systems

Author

Garbe, C.S. ; Butz, A. ; Dadou, I. ; Dewitte, B. ; Garçon, V. ; Illig, S. ; Paulmier, A. ; Sudre, J. ; Yahia, H.

Author_Institution

Interdiscipl. Center for Sci. Comput. (IWR), Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

fYear

2012

fDate

22-27 July 2012

Firstpage

6150

Lastpage

6153

Abstract

The EBUS (Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems) and OMZs (Oxygen Minimum Zone) contribute very significantly to the gas exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere, notably with respect to the greenhouse gases (hereafter GHG). From in-situ ocean measurements, the uncertainty of the net global ocean-atmosphere CO₂ fluxes is between 20 and 30%, and could be much higher in the EBUS-OMZ. Off Peru, very few in-situ data are available presently, which justifies alternative approaches for assessing these fluxes. In this contribution we introduce.

Keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; atmospheric composition; atmospheric techniques; CO₂; EBUS-OMZ; O₂; Peru; climatically-active gases; eastern boundary upwelling systems; gas exchange; greenhouse gases; net global ocean-atmosphere CO₂ fluxes; ocean measurements; oxygen minimum zone; Atmospheric measurements; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Spatial resolution; Air-Sea Interactions; Fluxes; Green House Gases; Partial differential equations; Satellite Retrieval;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1160-1

Electronic_ISBN

2153-6996

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6352740

Filename

6352740