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Simulated response of the ocean carbon cycle to anthropogenic climate warming

机译:海洋碳循环对人为气候变暖的模拟响应

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A 1995 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provides a set of illustrative anthropogenic CO_2 emission models leading to stabilization of atmospheric CO_2 concentrations ranging from 350 to 1,000p.p.m. (refs 1-4). Ocean carbon-cycle models used in calculating these scenarios assume that oceanic circulation and biology remain unchanged through time. Here we examine the importance of this assumption by using a coupled atmosphere-ocean model of global warming for the period 1765 to 2065. We find a large potential modification to the ocean carbon sink in a vast region of the Southern Ocean where increased rainfall leads to surface freshening and increased stratification. The increased stratification reduces the downward flux of carbon and the loss of heat to the atmosphere, both of which decrease the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic CO_2 relative to a constant-climate control scenario. Changes in the formation, transport and cycling of biological material may counteract the reduced uptake, but the response of the biological community to the climate change is difficult to predict on present understanding. Our simulation suggests that such physical and biological changes might already be occurring, and that they could substantially affect the ocean carbon sink over the next few decades.
机译:政府间气候变化专门委员会1995年的一份报告提供了一组说明性的人为CO_2排放模型,这些模型使大气中CO_2的浓度稳定在350至1,000p.p.m。 (参考1-4)。用于计算这些情景的海洋碳循环模型假设海洋循环和生物学随时间保持不变。在这里,我们通过使用1765年至2065年期间全球变暖的大气-海洋耦合模型检验了这一假设的重要性。我们发现,南大洋广大地区的海洋碳汇有很大的潜在变化,降雨增加导致表面变新并增加分层。分层的增加减少了碳的向下通量和向大气的热损失,相对于恒定气候控制方案,这两者都减少了海洋对人为CO_2的吸收。生物材料的形成,运输和循环的变化可能抵消摄取量的减少,但是根据目前的理解很难预测生物群落对气候变化的反应。我们的模拟表明,这样的物理和生物变化可能已经在发生,并且可能在未来几十年内严重影响海洋碳汇。

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