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Garcia & Keeling 2001
Garcia, H.E. and Keeling, R.F. (2001). On the global oxygen anomaly and air-sea flux. Journal of Geophysical Research 106: doi: 10.1029/1999JC000200. issn: 0148-0227.

We present a new climatology of monthly air-sea oxygen fluxes throughout the ice-free surface global ocean. The climatology is based on weighted linear least squares regressions using heat flux monthly anomalies for spatial and temporal interpolation of historical O2 data. The seasonal oceanic variations show that the tropical belt (20 ¿S-20 ¿N) is characterized by relatively small air-sea fluxes when compared to the middle to high latitudes (40¿--70 ¿). The largest and lowest seasonal fluxes occur during summer and winter in both hemispheres. By means of an atmospheric transport model we show that our climatology is in better agreement with the observed amplitude and phasing of the variations in atmospheric O2/N2 ratios because of seasonal air-sea exchanges at baseline stations in the Pacific Ocean than with previous air-sea O2 climatologies. Our study indicates that the component of the air-sea O2 flux that correlates with heat flux dominates the large-scale air-sea O2 exchange on seasonal timescales. The contribution of each major oceanic basin to the atmospheric observations is described. The seasonal net thermal (SNOT) and biological (SNOB) outgassing components of the flux are examined in relation to latitudinal bands, basin-wide, and hemispheric contributions. The Southern Hemisphere's SNOB (~0.26 Pmol) and SNOT (~0.29 Pmol) values are larger than the Northern Hemisphere's SNOB (~0.15 Pmol) and SNOT (~0.16 Pmol) values (1 Pmol=1015 mol). We estimate a global extratropical carbon new production during the outgassing season of 3.7 Pg C (1 Pg=1015 g), lower than previous estimates with air-sea O2 climatologies. ¿ 2001 American Geophysical Union

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Atmospheric Composition and Structure, Air/sea constituent fluxes (3339, 4504), Global Change, Oceans, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Climatology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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