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    The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño

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    Patra, P.K.
    Crisp, D.
    Kaiser, J.W.
    Wunch, D.
    Saeki, T.
    Ichii, K.
    Sekiya, T.
    Wennberg, P.O.
    Feist, D.G.
    Pollard, D.F.
    Griffith, D.W.T.
    Velazco, V.A.
    De Maziere, M.
    Sha, M.K.
    Roehl, C.
    Chatterjee, A.
    Ishijima, K.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Audience
    Scientific
    Date
    2017
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    The powerful El Niño event of 2015–2016 – the third most intense since the 1950s – has exerted a large impact on the Earth’s natural climate system. The column-averaged CO2 dry-air mole fraction (XCO2) observations from satellites and ground-based networks are analyzed together with in situ observations for the period of September 2014 to October 2016. From the differences between satellite (OCO-2) observations and simulations using an atmospheric chemistry-transport model, we estimate that, relative to the mean annual fluxes for 2014, the most recent El Niño has contributed to an excess CO2 emission from the Earth’s surface (land + ocean) to the atmosphere in the range of 2.4 ± 0.2 PgC (1 Pg = 1015 g) over the period of July 2015 to June 2016. The excess CO2 flux is resulted primarily from reduction in vegetation uptake due to drought, and to a lesser degree from increased biomass burning. It is about the half of the CO2 flux anomaly (range: 4.4–6.7 PgC) estimated for the 1997/1998 El Niño. The annual total sink is estimated to be 3.9 ± 0.2 PgC for the assumed fossil fuel emission of 10.1 PgC. The major uncertainty in attribution arise from error in anthropogenic emission trends, satellite data and atmospheric transport.
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    Patra, P.K.; Crisp, D.; Kaiser, J.W.; Wunch, D.; Saeki, T.; Ichii, K.; Sekiya, T.; Wennberg, P.O.; Feist, D.G.; Pollard, D.F.; Griffith, D.W.T.; Velazco, V.A.; De Maziere, M.; Sha, M.K.; Roehl, C.; Chatterjee, A.; Ishijima, K. (2017). The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) tracks 2-3 peta-gram increase in carbon release to the atmosphere during the 2014-2016 El Niño. , Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, A13567, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13459-0.
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/6315
    doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13459-0
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    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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