To examine seasonal and regional variabilities in metabolic status and the coupling of net community production (NCP) and air‐sea CO2fluxes in the western Arctic Ocean, we collected underway measurements of surface O2/Ar and partial pressure of CO2(
The Arctic Ocean has turned from a perennial ice‐covered ocean into a seasonally ice‐free ocean in recent decades. Such a shift in the air‐ice‐sea interface has resulted in substantial changes in the Arctic carbon cycle and related biogeochemical processes. To quantitatively evaluate how the oceanic CO2sink responds to rapid sea ice loss and to provide a mechanistic explanation, here we examined the air‐sea CO2flux and the regional CO2sink in the western Arctic Ocean from 1994 to 2019 by two complementary approaches: observation‐based estimation and a data‐driven box model evaluation. The
- Award ID(s):
- 1926158
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10362310
- Publisher / Repository:
- DOI PREFIX: 10.1029
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 0886-6236
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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