At the last CTD station, a rainbow celebrated the end of our long journey! #GO_SHIP #P04W 🌊

Just passed the halfway point of the R/V Mirai GO-SHIP P04W cruise!! 🚢 🌊

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Ozone hope? The 2024 ozone hole closer to the historical average in size and duration than the previous years. Does this signal progress towards recovery? Read the article atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ozone-hope-2... #CAMS

New paper on the global biological carbon pump! Please check it out 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

[6/10] Yasunaka et al. unravelled the exceptional role of climate change for the CO₂ sink in the Arctic Ocean. Here, the accelerated CO₂ uptake is primarily caused by sea ice loss, whereas rising atmospheric CO₂ dominates the trends in all other #RECCAP2 regions. doi.org/10.1029/2023... 🌊

[4/10] Pérez et al. assessed the important CO₂ sink in the Atlantic Ocean. A major fraction of this CO₂ uptake is realised in the subpolar North Atlantic, where models and observation-based estimates still differ substantially with respect to trends and seasonality. doi.org/10.1029/2023... 🌊

[3/10] Rodgers et al. found that the seasonal amplitude of air-sea CO₂ fluxes increased over the past decades. We also show that the surface ocean DIC seasonality in biogeochemical ocean models is lower than in observation-based products. Something to improve… doi.org/10.1029/2023... 🌊

[2/10] Hauck et al. found that the Southern Ocean takes up 50% less CO₂ than reported in RECCAP1! Still, most of the global CO₂ uptake occurs here, calling for a better understanding of trends, seasonality and interior transport of anthropogenic CO₂. doi.org/10.1029/2023... @jhauck.bsky.social

[1/10] DeVries et al. assessed the Global Ocean Carbon Sink and found that models and fCO2 products agree on the long-term mean uptake of CO2, but recent trends differ by almost a factor of 2, indicating a need to better understand the impact of climate variability. doi.org/10.1029/2023... 🌊

#RECCAP2 wrap-up coming! Over the past 5 years, 100 oceanographer's from all around the world scrutinised the ocean carbon sink through models and observations. Our studies have been published in an special issue: tinyurl.com/RECCAP2-spec... Starting tomorrow, I'll introduce one paper a day. 🌊

Cool new paper that highlights the role of local nutrient recycling in supporting low latitude productivity and carbon export 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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