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A Synthesis of Global Coastal Ocean Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
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  • Laure Resplandy,
  • Allison Hogikyan,
  • Hermann Werner Bange,
  • Daniele Bianchi,
  • Thomas S Weber,
  • Wei-Jun Cai,
  • Scott C. Doney,
  • Katja Fennel,
  • Marion Gehlen,
  • Judith Hauck,
  • Fabrice Lacroix,
  • Peter Landschützer,
  • Corinne Le Quéré,
  • Jens Daniel Müller,
  • Raymond Gabriel Najjar,
  • Alizée Roobaert,
  • Sarah Berthet,
  • Laurent Bopp,
  • Trang Thi-Tuyet Chau,
  • Minhan Dai,
  • Nicolas Gruber,
  • Tatiana Ilyina,
  • Annette Kock,
  • Manfredi Manizza,
  • Zouhair Lachkar,
  • Goulven Gildas Laruelle,
  • Enhui Liao,
  • Ivan D. Lima,
  • Cara Nissen,
  • Christian Rödenbeck,
  • Roland Séférian,
  • Jörg Schwinger,
  • Katsuya Toyama,
  • Hiroyuki Tsujino,
  • Pierre Regnier
Laure Resplandy
Princeton University

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Allison Hogikyan
Princeton University
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Hermann Werner Bange
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
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Daniele Bianchi
University of California Los Angeles
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Thomas S Weber
University of Rochester
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Wei-Jun Cai
University of Delaware
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Scott C. Doney
University of Virginia
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Katja Fennel
Dalhousie University
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Marion Gehlen
LSCE
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Judith Hauck
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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Fabrice Lacroix
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
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Peter Landschützer
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
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Corinne Le Quéré
School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK
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Jens Daniel Müller
ETH Zürich
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Raymond Gabriel Najjar
The Pennsylvania State University
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Alizée Roobaert
Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Sarah Berthet
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
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Laurent Bopp
LMD/IPSL
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Trang Thi-Tuyet Chau
LSCE
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Minhan Dai
Xiamen University
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Nicolas Gruber
ETH Zürich
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Tatiana Ilyina
Max Planck Institute of Meteorology
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Annette Kock
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
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Manfredi Manizza
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Zouhair Lachkar
New York University Abu Dhabi
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Goulven Gildas Laruelle
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Enhui Liao
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Ivan D. Lima
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Cara Nissen
University of Colorado Boulder
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Christian Rödenbeck
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
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Roland Séférian
CNRM (Météo-France/CNRS)
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Jörg Schwinger
NORCE Climate & Environment
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Katsuya Toyama
MRI
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Hiroyuki Tsujino
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center
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Pierre Regnier
Université Libre de Bruxelles
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Abstract

The coastal ocean contributes to regulating atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations by taking up carbon dioxide (CO2) and releasing nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). Major advances have improved our understanding of the coastal air-sea exchanges of these three gasses since the first phase of the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes (RECCAP in 2013), but a comprehensive view that integrates the three gasses at the global scale is still lacking. In this second phase (RECCAP2), we quantify global coastal ocean fluxes of CO2, N2O and CH4 using an ensemble of global gap-filled observation-based products and ocean biogeochemical models. The global coastal ocean is a net sink of CO2 in both observational products and models, but the magnitude of the median net global coastal uptake is ~60% larger in models (-0.72 vs. -0.44 PgC/yr, 1998-2018, coastal ocean area of 77 million km2). We attribute most of this model-product difference to the seasonality in sea surface CO2 partial pressure at mid- and high-latitudes, where models simulate stronger winter CO2 uptake. The global coastal ocean is a major source of N2O (+0.70 PgCO2-e /yr in observational product and +0.54 PgCO2-e /yr in model median) and of CH4 (+0.21 PgCO2-e /yr in observational product), which offsets a substantial proportion of the net radiative effect of coastal \co uptake (35-58% in CO2-equivalents). Data products and models need improvement to better resolve the spatio-temporal variability and long term trends in CO2, N2O and CH4 in the global coastal ocean.
17 Apr 2023Submitted to ESS Open Archive
18 Apr 2023Published in ESS Open Archive