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Sea surface freshening inferred from SMOS and ARGO salinity: impact of rain
J. Boutin
CNRS-INSU, UMR7159, LOCEAN/IPSL (CNRS-UPMC-IRD-MNHN), Paris, France
N. Martin
CNRS-INSU, UMR7159, LOCEAN/IPSL (CNRS-UPMC-IRD-MNHN), Paris, France
G. Reverdin
CNRS-INSU, UMR7159, LOCEAN/IPSL (CNRS-UPMC-IRD-MNHN), Paris, France
X. Yin
CNRS-INSU, UMR7159, LOCEAN/IPSL (CNRS-UPMC-IRD-MNHN), Paris, France
F. Gaillard
IFREMER, LPO (CNRS-IFREMER-IRD-UBO), Plouzané, France
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Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Benjamin Pfeil, Camilla S. Landa, Nicolas Metzl, Kevin M. O'Brien, Are Olsen, Karl Smith, Cathy Cosca, Sumiko Harasawa, Stephen D. Jones, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Ute Schuster, Tobias Steinhoff, Colm Sweeney, Taro Takahashi, Bronte Tilbrook, Chisato Wada, Rik Wanninkhof, Simone R. Alin, Carlos F. Balestrini, Leticia Barbero, Nicholas R. Bates, Alejandro A. Bianchi, Frédéric Bonou, Jacqueline Boutin, Yann Bozec, Eugene F. Burger, Wei-Jun Cai, Robert D. Castle, Liqi Chen, Melissa Chierici, Kim Currie, Wiley Evans, Charles Featherstone, Richard A. Feely, Agneta Fransson, Catherine Goyet, Naomi Greenwood, Luke Gregor, Steven Hankin, Nick J. Hardman-Mountford, Jérôme Harlay, Judith Hauck, Mario Hoppema, Matthew P. Humphreys, Christopher W. Hunt, Betty Huss, J. Severino P. Ibánhez, Truls Johannessen, Ralph Keeling, Vassilis Kitidis, Arne Körtzinger, Alex Kozyr, Evangelia Krasakopoulou, Akira Kuwata, Peter Landschützer, Siv K. Lauvset, Nathalie Lefèvre, Claire Lo Monaco, Ansley Manke, Jeremy T. Mathis, Liliane Merlivat, Frank J. Millero, Pedro M. S. Monteiro, David R. Munro, Akihiko Murata, Timothy Newberger, Abdirahman M. Omar, Tsuneo Ono, Kristina Paterson, David Pearce, Denis Pierrot, Lisa L. Robbins, Shu Saito, Joe Salisbury, Reiner Schlitzer, Bernd Schneider, Roland Schweitzer, Rainer Sieger, Ingunn Skjelvan, Kevin F. Sullivan, Stewart C. Sutherland, Adrienne J. Sutton, Kazuaki Tadokoro, Maciej Telszewski, Matthias Tuma, Steven M. A. C. van Heuven, Doug Vandemark, Brian Ward, Andrew J. Watson, and Suqing Xu
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 383–413, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-383-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-383-2016, 2016
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Version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (www.socat.info) has 14.5 million CO2 (carbon dioxide) values for the years 1957 to 2014 covering the global oceans and coastal seas. Version 3 is an update to version 2 with a longer record and 44 % more CO2 values. The CO2 measurements have been made on ships, fixed moorings and drifting buoys. SOCAT enables quantification of the ocean carbon sink and ocean acidification, as well as model evaluation, thus informing climate negotiations.
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C. Walker Brown, J. Boutin, and L. Merlivat
Biogeosciences, 12, 7315–7329, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7315-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-7315-2015, 2015
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Using a temperature-salinity-based extrapolation of in situ surface-fCO2, in conjunction with SMOS SSS and OSTIA SST, fCO2 is mapped within the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETPO) at high spatial (0.25°) and temporal (monthly) resolution. Strong interannual and spatial variability is identified, with net outgassing of CO2 in the gulfs of Tehuantepec and Papagayo contrasting net ingassing in the Gulf of Panama. For the period of July 2010-July 2014, the ETPO was supersaturated by ~40μatm.
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L. Merlivat, J. Boutin, and F. d'Ovidio
Biogeosciences, 12, 3513–3524, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3513-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3513-2015, 2015
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One CARIOCA buoy deployed during the KEOPS2 expedition in Oct-Nov 2011 drifted eastward in the Kerguelen plume. Surface measurements of pCO2 and O2 were collected. Close to the polar front, the surface waters are a sink for CO2 and a source for O2, with mean fluxes equal to -8mmol CO2 m-2d-1 and +38mmol O2 m-2d-1. Outside an iron-enriched filament, the fluxes are in the opposite direction. NCP values of 60-140 mmol C m-2d-1 and stoichiometric ratios, O2/C, between 1.1 and 1.4 are computed.
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D. C. E. Bakker, B. Pfeil, K. Smith, S. Hankin, A. Olsen, S. R. Alin, C. Cosca, S. Harasawa, A. Kozyr, Y. Nojiri, K. M. O'Brien, U. Schuster, M. Telszewski, B. Tilbrook, C. Wada, J. Akl, L. Barbero, N. R. Bates, J. Boutin, Y. Bozec, W.-J. Cai, R. D. Castle, F. P. Chavez, L. Chen, M. Chierici, K. Currie, H. J. W. de Baar, W. Evans, R. A. Feely, A. Fransson, Z. Gao, B. Hales, N. J. Hardman-Mountford, M. Hoppema, W.-J. Huang, C. W. Hunt, B. Huss, T. Ichikawa, T. Johannessen, E. M. Jones, S. D. Jones, S. Jutterström, V. Kitidis, A. Körtzinger, P. Landschützer, S. K. Lauvset, N. Lefèvre, A. B. Manke, J. T. Mathis, L. Merlivat, N. Metzl, A. Murata, T. Newberger, A. M. Omar, T. Ono, G.-H. Park, K. Paterson, D. Pierrot, A. F. Ríos, C. L. Sabine, S. Saito, J. Salisbury, V. V. S. S. Sarma, R. Schlitzer, R. Sieger, I. Skjelvan, T. Steinhoff, K. F. Sullivan, H. Sun, A. J. Sutton, T. Suzuki, C. Sweeney, T. Takahashi, J. Tjiputra, N. Tsurushima, S. M. A. C. van Heuven, D. Vandemark, P. Vlahos, D. W. R. Wallace, R. Wanninkhof, and A. J. Watson
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 6, 69–90, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-69-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-69-2014, 2014
L. Resplandy, J. Boutin, and L. Merlivat
Biogeosciences, 11, 75–90, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-75-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-75-2014, 2014
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Approach: Remote Sensing | Depth range: Surface | Geographical range: All Geographic Regions | Phenomena: Temperature, Salinity and Density Fields
Core operational Sentinel-3 marine data product services as part of the Copernicus Space Component
Characterisation and quantification of regional diurnal SST cycles from SEVIRI
Sea surface temperature anomalies, seasonal cycle and trend regimes in the Eastern Pacific coast
Hans Bonekamp, Francois Montagner, Vincenzo Santacesaria, Carolina Nogueira Loddo, Sally Wannop, Igor Tomazic, Anne O'Carroll, Ewa Kwiatkowska, Remko Scharroo, and Hilary Wilson
Ocean Sci., 12, 787–795, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-787-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-787-2016, 2016
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This paper describes the marine data available from the Marine Centre, part of the Sentinel-3 Payload Data Ground Segment, located at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT).
Descriptions include the scientific and operational feedback mechanisms on the performance of the services as well as practical information and user support mechanisms.
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I. Karagali and J. L. Høyer
Ocean Sci., 10, 745–758, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-745-2014, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-745-2014, 2014
A. Ramos-Rodríguez, D. B. Lluch-Cota, S. E. Lluch-Cota, and A. Trasviña-Castro
Ocean Sci., 8, 81–90, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-81-2012, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-8-81-2012, 2012
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