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CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system

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Observation-based data reconstructions of global surface ocean carbonate system variables play an essential role in monitoring the recent status of ocean carbon uptake and ocean acidification, as well as their impacts on marine organisms and ecosystems. So far, ongoing efforts are directed towards exploring new approaches to describe the complete marine carbonate system and to better recover its fine-scale features. In this respect, our research activities within the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) aim to develop a sustainable production chain of observation-derived global ocean carbonate system datasets at high space-time resolutions. As the start of the long-term objective, this study introduces a new 0.25° monthly reconstruction, namely CMEMS-LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement) for the period 1985-2021. The CMEMS-LSCE reconstruction derives datasets of six carbonate system variables, including surface ocean partial pressure of CO 2 (pCO 2), total alkalinity (A T), total dissolved inorganic carbon (C T), surface ocean pH, and saturation states with respect to aragonite (ar) and calcite (ca). Reconstructing pCO 2 relies on an ensemble of neural network models mapping gridded observation-based data provided by the Surface Ocean CO 2 ATlas (SOCAT). Surface ocean A T is estimated with a multiple-linear-regression approach, and the remaining carbonate variables are resolved by CO 2 system speciation given the reconstructed pCO 2 and A T ; 1σ uncertainty associated with these estimates is also provided. Here, σ stands for either the ensemble standard deviation of pCO 2 estimates or the total uncertainty for each of the five other variables propagated through the processing chain with input data uncertainty. We demonstrate that the 0.25° resolution pCO 2 product outperforms a coarser spatial resolution (1 •) thanks to higher data coverage nearshore and a better description of horizontal and temporal variations in pCO 2 across diverse ocean basins, particularly in the coastal-open-ocean continuum. Product qualification with observation-based data confirms reliable reconstructions with root-meansquare deviation from observations of less than 8 %, 4 %, and 1 % relative to the global mean of pCO 2 , A T (C T), and pH. The global average 1σ uncertainty is below 5 % and 8 % for pCO 2 and ar (ca), 2 % for A T and C T , and 0.4 % for pH relative to their global mean values. Both model-observation misfit and model uncertainty indicate that coastal data reproduction still needs further improvement, wherein high temporal and horizontal gradients of carbonate variables and representative uncertainty from data sampling would be taken into account as a priority. This study also presents a potential use case of the CMEMS-LSCE carbonate data product in tracking the recent state of ocean acidification. The data associated with this study are available at https://doi.org/10.14768/a2f0891b-763a-49e9-af1b-78ed78b16982 (Chau et al., 2023).
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hal-04455238 , version 1 (13-02-2024)

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Thi-Tuyet-Trang Chau, Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Metzl, Frédéric Chevallier. CMEMS-LSCE: a global, 0.25°, monthly reconstruction of the surface ocean carbonate system. Earth System Science Data, 2024, 16 (1), pp.121-160. ⟨10.5194/essd-16-121-2024⟩. ⟨hal-04455238⟩
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