The Atmospheric Potential Oxygen forward Model Intercomparison Project (APO-MIP1): evaluating simulated atmospheric transport of air-sea gas exchange tracers and APO flux products

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Názov: The Atmospheric Potential Oxygen forward Model Intercomparison Project (APO-MIP1): evaluating simulated atmospheric transport of air-sea gas exchange tracers and APO flux products
Autori: Jin, Yuming, Stephens, Britton, Long, Matthew, Chandra, Naveen, Chevallier, Frédéric, Hooghiem, Joram, Luijkx, Ingrid, Maksyutov, Shamil, Morgan, Eric, Niwa, Yosuke, Patra, Prabir, Rödenbeck, Christian, Vance, Jesse
Prispievatelia: Aptel, Florence
Zdroj: eISSN
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Copernicus GmbH, 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: [SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, [SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment
Popis: Atmospheric Potential Oxygen (APO, defined as O2 + 1.1 × CO2) is primarily a tracer of ocean biogeochemistry and fossil fuel burning. APO exhibits strong seasonal variability at mid-to-high latitudes, driven mainly by seasonal air-sea O2 exchange. We present results from the first version of the Atmospheric Potential Oxygen forward Model Intercomparison Project (APO-MIP1), which forward transports three air-sea APO flux products in eight atmospheric transport models or model variants, aiming to evaluate atmospheric transport and flux representations by comparing simulations against surface station, airborne, and shipboard observations of APO. We find significant spread and bias in APO simulations at eastern Pacific surface stations, indicating inconsistencies in representing vertical and coastal atmospheric mixing. A framework using airborne APO observations demonstrates that most atmospheric transport models (ATMs) participating in APO-MIP1 overestimate tracer diffusive mixing across moist isentropes (i.e., diabatic mixing) in mid-latitudes. This framework also enables us to isolate ATM-related biases in simulated APO distributions using independent mixing constraints derived from moist static energy budgets from reanalysis, thereby allowing us to assess large-scale features in air-sea APO flux products. Furthermore, shipboard observations show that ATMs are unable to reproduce seasonal APO gradients over Drake Passage and near Palmer Station, Antarctica, which could arise from uncertainties in APO fluxes or model transport. The transport simulations and flux products from APO-MIP1 provide valuable resources for developing new APO flux inversions and evaluating ocean biogeochemical processes.
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Popis súboru: application/pdf
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 1991-9603
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-5937-2025
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2025-1736
Prístupová URL adresa: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-1736/
https://hal.science/hal-05271818v1
https://hal.science/hal-05271818v1/document
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-5937-2025
Rights: CC BY
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....dd3ea36ed3bc73e7e71c8182b41abff1
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:Atmospheric Potential Oxygen (APO, defined as O2 + 1.1 × CO2) is primarily a tracer of ocean biogeochemistry and fossil fuel burning. APO exhibits strong seasonal variability at mid-to-high latitudes, driven mainly by seasonal air-sea O2 exchange. We present results from the first version of the Atmospheric Potential Oxygen forward Model Intercomparison Project (APO-MIP1), which forward transports three air-sea APO flux products in eight atmospheric transport models or model variants, aiming to evaluate atmospheric transport and flux representations by comparing simulations against surface station, airborne, and shipboard observations of APO. We find significant spread and bias in APO simulations at eastern Pacific surface stations, indicating inconsistencies in representing vertical and coastal atmospheric mixing. A framework using airborne APO observations demonstrates that most atmospheric transport models (ATMs) participating in APO-MIP1 overestimate tracer diffusive mixing across moist isentropes (i.e., diabatic mixing) in mid-latitudes. This framework also enables us to isolate ATM-related biases in simulated APO distributions using independent mixing constraints derived from moist static energy budgets from reanalysis, thereby allowing us to assess large-scale features in air-sea APO flux products. Furthermore, shipboard observations show that ATMs are unable to reproduce seasonal APO gradients over Drake Passage and near Palmer Station, Antarctica, which could arise from uncertainties in APO fluxes or model transport. The transport simulations and flux products from APO-MIP1 provide valuable resources for developing new APO flux inversions and evaluating ocean biogeochemical processes.
ISSN:19919603
DOI:10.5194/gmd-18-5937-2025