PC44B:
Ocean Heat and Carbon Uptake and Storage: Observations, Mechanisms, and Feedbacks III Posters

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Session ID#: 11506

Session Description:
Heat and CO2 exchange between the atmosphere and ocean is a major control on Earth’s climate. Climbing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, along with associated radiative impacts, perturbs the ocean state and circulation. These physical changes in the ocean generally feedback positively on atmospheric CO2 levels by reducing ocean carbon uptake. However, the uptake of heat alters the circulation in ways that may feedback negatively (i.e. a stabilizing feedback) or positively on atmospheric warming trends. The sign and strength of these feedbacks depends on the complex interplay between physical and biogeochemical processes in the ocean and their interaction with atmospheric dynamics and radiative feedbacks. Recent advances in observational and modeling capabilities have deepened our understanding of these relevant processes. However the exact mechanisms governing the magnitude and regional distribution of heat and carbon uptake and storage remain poorly understood. This session seeks new and evolving insights into modeling and observational efforts that investigate all aspects of the ocean’s role in anthropogenic CO2 and heat uptake, storage and transport including the role of large-scale overturning circulation, water mass formation, ocean-ice-atmosphere, mixing, mesoscale and biogeochemical processes. We invite contributions that investigate ocean heat and carbon uptake, storage and transport on regional to global scales.
Primary Chair:  Thomas L Froelicher, Universtity of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland
Chairs:  Jaime B Palter, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Adele K Morrison, Australian National University and Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Sarah G Purkey, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States
Moderators:  Thomas L Froelicher, Universtity of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland, Jaime B Palter, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, Adele K Morrison, Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia and Sarah G Purkey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Thomas L Froelicher, Universtity of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland and Jaime B Palter, McGill University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada
Index Terms:

1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1635 Oceans [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4806 Carbon cycling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes
  • B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
PC44B-2191
Vertical Heat Flux in the Ocean: Estimates from Observations, and Comparisons with a Coupled General Circulation Model (86872)
Patrick F Cummins, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, BC, Canada, Diane Masson, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, BC, Canada and Oleg Saenko, Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
PC44B-2192
Heat uptake in the Southern Ocean in a warmer, windier world: a process-based analysis using an AOGCM with an eddy-permitting ocean (87547)
Till Kuhlbrodt, NCAS, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom and Jonathan M Gregory, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom; National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
 
PC44B-2193
Understanding the Spatial Patterns of Ocean Heat Uptake and Storage Under Global Warming (Invited) (93709)
Kyle Armour, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States, John C Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Jeffery R Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Aaron Donohoe, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Emily Rose Newsom, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
PC44B-2194
Equilibrium Ocean Warming Patterns Depend Non-linearly on Forcing History (Invited) (92100)
Maria Rugenstein and Reto Knutti, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
PC44B-2196
What Drives Regional Variation in Global Ocean-Atmosphere CO2 Fluxes? (89998)
Jonathan Maitland Lauderdale1, Stephanie Dutkiewicz2, Richard G Williams3 and Michael J Follows2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, L69, United Kingdom
 
PC44B-2197
Reduced Ocean Carbon Storage in a Changing Climate due to the Ocean Mesoscale (90965)
Ivy Frenger1, Carolina O. Dufour1, Gregory F. de Souza2, Jorge L Sarmiento3, Stephen Matthew Griffies4 and Alison R Gray5, (1)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)ETH Zurich, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, United States
 
PC44B-2198
Using Initial Condition Large Ensemble Experiments to Interpret Observed Trends and 21st Century Projections of Ocean Carbon Uptake (87604)
Sarah Schlunegger, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, Keith B Rodgers, IBS Center for Climate Physics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, Jorge L Sarmiento, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Thomas L Froelicher, Universtity of Bern, Climate and Environmental Physics, Bern, Switzerland
 
PC44B-2199
Constraining internal variability of oceanic carbon uptake in MPI-ESM super ensemble simulations (91459)
Hongmei Li and Tatiana Ilyina, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
 
PC44B-2200
Sensitivity analysis of the main methods (ΔC*, ΦCTO, TTD) used to infer the anthropogenic carbon (Cant) along the RAPID line (26°N North Atlantic latitudinal transect) on 2010. (89788)
Tobia Tudino1, Marie-Jose Messias1, Benjamin Mills2, Ute Schuster3 and Andrew J. Watson3, (1)University of Exeter, Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Bristol, School of Geographical Sciences, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
PC44B-2201
Daily Distributions of DIC and pCO2 over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean calculated by the high resolution tracer transport model (90588)
Takaaki Yokoi, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan and Shamil S Maksyutov, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Satellite Observation Center, Tsukuba, Japan
 
PC44B-2202
Reducing Uncertainties in Anthropogenic Carbon Budget Projections for the Subpolar North Atlantic (90921)
Nadine Goris1, Jerry F Tjiputra2, Are Olsen3, Emil Jeansson4 and Jorg Schwinger4, (1)NORCE Climate and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (2)NORCE Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, (3)University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, Bergen, Norway, (4)Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
 
PC44B-2203
Budgets of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in the Eastern Subpolar North Atlantic in the 2000s from In Situ Data (90344)
Patricia Zunino1, Pascale Lherminier2, Herle Mercier1, Aida F. Rios3, Xose A. Padin4 and Fiz F Pérez4, (1)CNRS, LOPS, Plouzane, France, (2)IFREMER, LOPS, Plouzané, France, (3)IIM, CSIC, Vigo, Spain, (4)IIM, CSIC, Oceanography, Vigo, Spain
 
PC44B-2204
Determining the uncertainty of the North Atlantic CO2 uptake using CMIP5 models (91819)
Alice Dolaine Lebehot1, Paul Richard Halloran1, Andrew J. Watson1, Doug J McNeall2 and Ute Schuster1, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
PC44B-2205
Low-frequency changes in Southern Ocean ventilation quantified using an Atlantic sector model: A boundary-propagator approach (88101)
Tristan Sasse and Mark Holzer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
PC44B-2206
Ocean carbon and heat uptake in response to an ozone perturbation (92018)
Jordan L Thomas, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
PC44B-2207
The Response of the Ocean to Short-Term Cooling (92297)
Jeffery R Scott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and John C Marshall, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
 
PC44B-2208
Constraints on Oceanic Meridional Transport of Heat and Carbon from Combined Oceanic and Atmospheric Measurements. (86951)
Laure Resplandy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Ralph F Keeling, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Britton B Stephens, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, Boulder, United States, Jonathan D Bent, Picarro, Inc., Santa Clara, CA, United States, Andrew R Jacobson, University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, Christian Rödenbeck, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany and Samar Khatiwala, University of Oxford, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
PC44B-2209
Enhanced Atlantic Sea Level Rise Under High Carbon Emission Rates (90489)
John P Krasting, NOAA / GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, John P Dunne, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Ronald J Stouffer, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Robert Hallberg, Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, United States
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