Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Decadal predictions of the North Atlantic CO2 uptake

  • Hongmei Li,
  • Tatiana Ilyina,
  • Wolfgang A. Müller,
  • Frank Sienz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11076
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Predictability of variations in the ocean carbon sink has remained unexplored in previous decadal prediction studies based on modern Earth system models. Here, the authors show that potential predictive skill of the ocean CO2uptake in the North Atlantic western subpolar gyre region is up to 4–7 years.