Frenger Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

The Ocean’S role in miTIgating climAte change: Mechanistic understanding of the legacy of anthropogenic heat and carbon in the ocean under net-negative carbon dioxide emissions

The ocean has absorbed vast amounts of “anthropogenic” carbon and heat (Canth and Hanth, respectively), due to humans' carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere and resultant atmospheric warming. We expect absorbed Canth and Hanth to leak back to the atmosphere under net-negative emissions and atmospheric cooling. Yet, such leakage and its impact on Earth’s climate evolution are poorly understood. Earth system models used for such research do not resolve the most energetic features of the ocean, that is ocean mesoscale features that mix and transport waters across ocean regions where most of Canth and Hanth is stored. I hypothesize that mesoscale features accelerate the transfer of…

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