• Acidification of the Nordic Seas 

      Fransner, Sara Filippa Krusmynta; Fröb, Friederike; Tjiputra, Jerry; Goris, Nadine; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Jeansson, Emil; Omar, Abdirahman; Chierici, Melissa; Jones, Elizabeth Marie; Fransson, Agneta; Ólafsdóttir, Sólveig R.; Johannessen, Truls; Olsen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Due to low calcium carbonate saturation states, and winter mixing that brings anthropogenic carbon to the deep ocean, the Nordic Seas and their cold-water corals are vulnerable to ocean acidification. Here, we present a ...
    • Best Practice Data Standards for Discrete Chemical Oceanographic Observations 

      Jiang, Li-Qing; Pierrot, Denis; Wanninkhof, Rik; Feely, Richard A.; Tilbrook, Bronte; Alin, Simone; Barbero, Leticia; Byrne, Robert H.; Carter, Brendan R.; Dickson, Andrew G.; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Greeley, Dana; Hoppema, Mario; Humphreys, Matthew P.; Karstensen, Johannes; Lange, Nico; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Lewis, Ernie R.; Olsen, Are; Pérez, Fiz F.; Sabine, Christopher; Sharp, Jonathan D.; Tanhua, Toste; Trull, Thomas W.; Velo, Anton; Allegra, Andrew J.; Barker, Paul; Burger, Eugene; Cai, Wei-Jun; Chen, Chen-Tung A.; Cross, Jessica; Garcia, Hernan; Hernandez-Ayon, Jose Martin; Hu, Xinping; Kozyr, Alex; Langdon, Chris; Lee, Kitack; Salisbury, Joe; Wang, Zhaohui Aleck; Xue, Liang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Effective data management plays a key role in oceanographic research as cruise-based data, collected from different laboratories and expeditions, are commonly compiled to investigate regional to global oceanographic ...
    • Decadal Changes in Ventilation and Anthropogenic Carbon in the Nordic Seas 

      Jeansson, Emil; Tanhua, Toste; Olsen, Are; Smethie Jr., William M.; Rajasakaren, Balamuralli; Olafsdóttir, Solveig R.; Ólafsson, Jón (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We evaluate the decadal evolution of ventilation and anthropogenic carbon (Cant) in the Nordic Seas between 1982 and the 2010s. Ventilation changes on decadal timescale are identified by evaluating decadal changes in mean ...
    • Decadal Trends in the Oceanic Storage of Anthropogenic Carbon From 1994 to 2014 

      Müller, Jens Daniel; Gruber, N.; Carter, B.; Feely, R.; Ishii, M.; Lange, N.; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Murata, A.; Olsen, Are; Pérez, F.F.; Sabine, C.; Tanhua, T.; Wanninkhof, R.; Zhu, D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The oceanic uptake and resulting storage of the anthropogenic CO2 (Cant) that humans have emitted into the atmosphere moderates climate change. Yet our knowledge about how this uptake and storage has progressed in time ...
    • Early detection of anthropogenic climate change signals in the ocean interior 

      Tjiputra, Jerry; Negrel, Jean; Olsen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Robust detection of anthropogenic climate change is crucial to: (i) improve our understanding of Earth system responses to external forcing, (ii) reduce uncertainty in future climate projections, and (iii) develop efficient ...
    • Fingerprint of Climate Change on Southern Ocean Carbon Storage 

      Wright, R.M.; Le Quéré, Quere; Mayot, N.; Olsen, Are; Bakker, D.C.E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in the uptake, transport, and storage of carbon by the global oceans. It is the ocean's largest sink of CO2, yet it is also among the regions with the lowest storage of anthropogenic ...
    • Global Carbon Budget 2020 

      Friedlingstein, Pierre; O'Sullivan, Michael; Jones, Matthew W.; Andrew, Robbie; Hauck, Judith; Olsen, Are; Peters, Glen Philip; Peters, Wouter; Pongratz, Julia; Sitch, Stephen; Le Quéré, Corinne; Canadell, Josep G.; Ciais, Philippe; Jackson, Robert B.; Alin, Simone; Aragão, Luiz E.O.C.; Arneth, Almut; Arora, Vivek K.; Bates, Nicholas R.; Becker, Meike; Benoit-Cattin, Alice; Bittig, Henry C.; Bopp, Laurent; Bultan, Selma; Chandra, Naveen; Chevallier, Frédéric; Chini, Louise P.; Evans, Wiley; Florentie, Liesbeth; Forster, Piers M.; Gasser, Thomas; Gehlen, Marion; Gilfillan, Dennis; Gkritzalis, Thanos; Gregor, Luke; Gruber, Nicolas; Harris, Ian; Hartung, Kerstin; Haverd, Vanessa; Houghton, Richard A.; Ilyina, Tatiana; Jain, Atul K.; Joetzjer, Emilie; Kadono, Koji; Kato, Etsushi; Kitidis, Vassilis; Korsbakken, Jan Ivar; Landschützer, Peter; Lefevre, Nathalie; Lenton, Andrew; Lienert, Sebastian; Liu, Zhu; Lombardozzi, Danica; Marland, Gregg; Metzl, Nicolas; Munro, David; Nabel, Julia E.M.S.; Nakaoka, Shin-Ichiro; Niwa, Yosuke; O'Brien, Kevin M.; Ono, Tsuneo; Palmer, Paul I.; Pierrot, Denis; Poulter, Ben; Resplandy, Laure; Robertson, Eddy; Rödenbeck, Christian; Schwinger, Jörg; Séférian, Roland; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Smith, Adam J.P.; Sutton, Adrienne; Tanhua, Toste; Tans, Pieter P.; Tian, Hanqin; Tilbrook, Bronte; Van Der Werf, Guido; Vuichard, Nicolas; Walker, Anthony P.; Wanninkhof, Rik; Watson, Andrew; Willis, David; Wiltshire, Andy; Yuan, Wenping; Yue, Xu; Zaehle, Sönke (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate – the “global carbon budget” – is important to better ...
    • A global monthly climatology of oceanic total dissolved inorganic carbon: a neural network approach 

      Broullón, Daniel; Velo, Antón; Hoppema, Mario; Olsen, Are; Takahashi, Taro; Key, Robert M.; Tanhua, Toste; Santana-Casiano, J. Magdalena; Kozyr, Alex; Perez, Fiz F. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere have modified the carbon cycle for more than 2 centuries. As the ocean stores most of the carbon on our planet, there is an important task in unraveling the natural and ...
    • Global Surface Ocean Acidification Indicators From 1750 to 2100 

      Jiang, Li-Qing; Dunne, John; Carter, Brendan R; Tjiputra, Jerry; Terhaar, Jens; Sharp, Jonathan D.; Olsen, Are; Alin, Simone; Bakker, Dorothee C.E.; Feely, Richard A.; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Hogan, Patrick; Ilyina, Tatiana; Lange, Nico; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Lewis, Ernie R.; Lovato, Tomas; Palmieri, Julien; Santana-Falcòn, Yeray; Schwinger, Jörg; Séférian, Roland; Strand, Gary; Swart, Neil; Tanhua, Toste; Tsujino, Hiroyuki; Wanninkhof, Rik; Watanabe, Michio; Yamamoto, Akitomo; Ziehn, Tilo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Accurately predicting future ocean acidification (OA) conditions is crucial for advancing OA research at regional and global scales, and guiding society's mitigation and adaptation efforts. This study presents a new ...
    • GLODAPv2.2022: the latest version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product 

      Lauvset, Siv Kari; Lange, Nico; Tanhua, Toste; Bittig, Henry C.; Olsen, Are; Kozyr, Alex; Alin, Simone R.; Alvarez, Marta; Azetsu-Scott, Kumiko; Barbero, Leticia; Becker, Susan; Brown, Peter; Carter, Brendan R.; Da Cunha, Leticia Cotrim; Feely, Richard A; Hoppema, Mario; Humphreys, Matthew P.; Ishii, Masao; Jeansson, Emil; Jiang, Li-Qing; Jones, Stephen Daniel; Lo Monaco, Claire; Murata, Akihiko; Müller, Jens D.; Perez, Fiz F; Pfeil, Gerrit Benjamin; Schirnick, Carsten; Steinfeldt, Reiner; Suzuki, Toru; Tilbrook, Bronte; Ulfsbo, Adam; Velo, Antón; Woosley, Ryan J.; key, Robert M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAP) is a synthesis effort providing regular compilations of surface-to-bottom ocean biogeochemical bottle data, with an emphasis on seawater inorganic carbon chemistry and related ...
    • How Is the Ocean Anthropogenic Carbon Reservoir Filled? 

      Davila, Xabier; Gebbie, Geoffrey; Brakstad, Ailin; Lauvset, Siv Kari; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Schwinger, Jörg; Olsen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      About a quarter of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions during the industrial era has been absorbed by the ocean. The rate limiting step for this uptake is the transport of the anthropogenic carbon (Cant) from the ocean ...
    • In-air one-point calibration of oxygen optodes in underway systems 

      Becker, Meike; Olsen, Are; Reverdin, Gilles (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Ships of opportunity are a frequently used platform in surface ocean carbon observations and estimating the annual ocean carbon sink. For understanding the drivers behind changes in the ocean carbon system, oxygen measurements ...
    • A multi-decadal record of oceanographic changes of the past ~165 years (1850-2015 AD) from Northwest of Iceland 

      Simon, Margit Hildegard; Muschitiello, Francesco; Tisserand, Amandine Aline; Olsen, Are; Moros, Matthias; Perner, Kerstin; Bårdsnes, Siv Tone; Dokken, Trond Martin; Jansen, Eystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Extending oceanographic data beyond the instrumental period is highly needed to better characterize and understand multi-decadal to centennial natural ocean variability. Here, a stable isotope record at unprecedented ...
    • Nordic Seas Heat Loss, Atlantic Inflow, and Arctic Sea Ice cover over the last century 

      Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Muilwijk, Morven; Eldevik, Tor; Årthun, Marius; Brakstad, Ailin; Madonna, Erica; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Spensberger, Clemens; Born, Andreas; Drange, Helge; Jeansson, Emil; Li, Camille; Olsen, Are; Skagseth, Øystein; Slater, Donald; Straneo, Fiammetta; Våge, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Poleward ocean heat transport is a key process in the earth system. We detail and review the northward Atlantic Water (AW) flow, Arctic Ocean heat transport, and heat loss to the atmosphere since 1900 in relation to sea ...
    • The northern European shelf as an increasing net sink for CO2 

      Becker, Meike; Olsen, Are; Landschützer, Peter; Omar, Abdirahman; Rehder, Gregor; Rödenbeck, Christian; Skjelvan, Ingunn (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We developed a simple method to refine existing open-ocean maps and extend them towards different coastal seas. Using a multi-linear regression we produced monthly maps of surface ocean fCO2 in the northern European coastal ...
    • Ocean Biogeochemical Predictions—Initialization and Limits of Predictability 

      Fransner, Filippa; Counillon, Francois; Bethke, Ingo; Tjiputra, Jerry; Samuelsen, Annette; Nummelin, Aleksi; Olsen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Predictions of ocean biogeochemistry, such as primary productivity and CO2 uptake, would help to understand the changing marine environment and the global climate. There is an emerging number of studies where initialization ...
    • On the Origins of Open Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zones 

      Davila, Xabier; Olsen, Are; Lauvset, Siv Kari; McDonagh, Elaine Louise; Brakstad, Ailin; Gebbie, Geoffrey (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Recent work suggests that Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) are sustained by the supply of oxygen-poor waters rather than the export of organic matter from the local surface layer and its subsequent remineralization inside OMZs. ...
    • Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance 

      Fransner, Sara Filippa Krusmynta; Olsen, Are; Årthun, Marius; Counillon, Francois Stephane; Tjiputra, Jerry; Samuelsen, Annette; Keenlyside, Noel Sebastian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Barents Sea is a highly biologically productive Arctic shelf sea with several commercially important fish stocks. Interannual-to-decadal predictions of its ecosystem would therefore be valuable for marine resource ...
    • Preformed Properties for Marine Organic Matter and Carbonate Mineral Cycling Quantification 

      Carter, Brendan R.; Feely, Richard A.; Lauvset, Siv Kari; Olsen, Are; DeVries, Tim; Sonnerup, Rolf E. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      We estimate preformed ocean phosphate, nitrate, oxygen, silicate, and alkalinity by combining a reconstruction of ventilation pathways in the ocean interior with estimates of submixed layer properties. These new preformed ...
    • Processes Driving Global Interior Ocean pH Distribution 

      Lauvset, Siv Kari; Carter, B.R.; Pérez, Fiz F.; Jiang, L.-Q.; Feely, Richard A.; Velo, Antón; Olsen, Are (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Ocean acidification evolves on the background of a natural ocean pH gradient that is the result of the interplay between ocean mixing, biological production and remineralization, calcium carbonate cycling, and temperature ...