This presentation will interpret results from the
TransCom 3 interannual time dependent inversion. First, the long-term mean
carbon exchange will be compared across the three different TransCom 3
inversion levels: the annual mean, seasonal, and interannual control
experiments. We will highlight the agreement among these experiments in spite
of the differing degrees of freedom, and the differing CO2 observing
networks employed. Comparison will be made to independent decadal estimates of
land and ocean carbon uptake and will include the sensitivity to different CO2
networks. We will also interpret the model mean interannual carbon fluxes as
they relate to key indices of climate variability. In particular, correlation
to the El Niño/Southern Oscillation index will be made
suggesting a propagation carbon flux anomalies from the tropics to the extra
tropics following the peak of the ENSO
warm phase in the tropical Pacific ocean.
These correlations will be explained via anomalies in temperature and
precipitation from NCEP reanalysis.
Author: K.R. Gurney (keving at atmos dot colostate dot edu)
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