Articles | Volume 16, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1431-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1431-2020
Research article
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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

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ED: Publish as is (08 Oct 2020) by Mario Hoppema
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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.