Ocean Science
Ocean Science
OS
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1431-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1431-2020
© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
Research article
 | 
18 Nov 2020
Research article |  | 18 Nov 2020

Importance of El Niño reproducibility for reconstructing historical CO2 flux variations in the equatorial Pacific

Michio Watanabe, Hiroaki Tatebe, Hiroshi Koyama, Tomohiro Hajima, Masahiro Watanabe, and Michio Kawamiya

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1431-2020-supplement

Data sets

MIROC MIROC-ES2L model output prepared for CMIP6 CMIP historical T. Hajima, M. Abe, O. Arakawa, T. Suzuki, Y. Komuro, T. Ogura, K. Ogochi, M. Watanabe, A. Yamamoto, H. Tatebe, M. A. Noguchi, R. Ohgaito, A. Ito, D. Yamazaki, A. Ito, K. Takata, S. Watanabe, M. Kawamiya, and K. Tachiiri https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/CMIP6.5602

Importance of El Niño reproducibility for reconstructing historical CO2 flux variations in the equatorial Pacific M Watanabe, H. Tatebe, H. Koyama, T. Hajima, M. Watanabe, and M. Kawamiya https://osf.io/mpk52

Download
Short summary
Carbon flux between air and sea is known to fluctuate in response to inherent climate variations. In this study, observed ocean hydrographic data were assimilated into Earth system models, and the carbon flux in the equatorial Pacific was evaluated. Our results suggest that, when observed ocean hydrographic data are assimilated into models for carbon cycle predictions on interannual to decadal timescales, the reproducibility of the internal climate variations in the model itself is important.
Read more