New Publication
In this paper, we discuss the impact of the unprecedented ocean warming of 2023 on the ocean carbon sink in the non-polar oceans (i.e. outside of the Arctic and Southern Ocean). Solubility reduces the sink very strongly, but physical / biogeochemical mechanisms act to increase the sink, with the net effect being a 10% reduction from what would be expected accounting for growing atmospheric pCO2 and an El Nino year. You can find a more extensive summary in this press release from Columbia’s Climate School.