- 著者
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遠嶋 康徳
- 出版者
- 日本地球化学会
- 雑誌
- 地球化学 (ISSN:03864073)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.44, no.3, pp.77-93, 2010
Observation of the change in atmospheric O<sub>2</sub> concentration, combined with atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> observation, provides complementary information about the global carbon cycle. This is based on the fact that O<sub>2</sub> and CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes are tightly coupled during terrestrial photosynthesis, respiration, and fossil fuel and biomass burning, but are less or decoupled during the sea-air gas exchanges. Especially, the long-term O<sub>2</sub> changes can be used to partition the sequestration of fossil fuel CO<sub>2</sub> release between ocean and terrestrial biosphere. In this review, we examine the parameters used for the partitioning calculation, including - O<sub>2</sub>: C exchange ratios for the terrestrial photosynthesis/respiration and fossil fuel burning. In early atmospheric O<sub>2</sub> studies, the net oceanic O<sub>2</sub> flux was assumed to be zero because of the low solubility of O<sub>2</sub> in seawater in comparison with that of CO<sub>2</sub>. However, recent studies have suggested that the upper-ocean warming, reducing the solubility of O<sub>2</sub> and the oceanic ventilation, causes net oceanic O<sub>2</sub> outgassing. We also review approaches to estimate the net oceanic O<sub>2</sub> fluxes. Finally, using the updated fossil CO<sub>2</sub> emission estimates and recently reported warming rates of the global upper ocean, we recalculate the ocean and terrestrial carbon sinks based on the previously reported atmospheric O<sub>2</sub> observations.