CO2 exchange coefficients from remotely sensed wind speed measurements: SSM/I versus QuikSCAT in 2000

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Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions (0312), Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Carbon Cycling, Oceanography: General: Remote Sensing And Electromagnetic Processes (0689)

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We compare here the air-sea exchange coefficient for CO2 estimated with monthly mean wind speed measured by the Special Sensing Microwave Imager (SSM/I), KS, and by the scatterometer QuikSCAT, KQ, for the year 2000. KS and KQ present the same patterns, although are larger than in ~65% of the world ocean. Zonal mean KS are consistently larger, except ~50°S and north of 10°S in the Indian Ocean. Global oceanic uptake, FQ, estimated using KQ and climatological ΔpCO2 ranges from 0.43 (July) to 2.6 Gt C y-1 (December). The global sink estimated from SSM/I is ~10% larger than FQ for most of the year. This comparison supports the use of SSM/I to quantify interannual variability of the global exchange coefficient of CO2.

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