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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-437-2025
Research article
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13 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 13 Feb 2025

Ocean carbon sink assessment via temperature and salinity data assimilation into a global ocean biogeochemistry model

Frauke Bunsen, Judith Hauck, Sinhué Torres-Valdés, and Lars Nerger

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Computer models are often used to estimate the ocean's CO2 uptake due to a lack of direct observations. Because such idealized models do not match precisely with the real world, we combine real-world observations of ocean temperature and salinity with a model and study the effect on the modeled air–sea CO2 flux (2010–2020). The corrections of temperature and salinity have their largest effect on regional CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean in winter and a small effect on the global CO2 uptake.
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