Hauck Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2022

The global ocean carbon cycle after peak emissions: Dynamics and process attribution in a seamless model framework from coastal shelves to the open ocean

Atmospheric CO2 levels are 49% above preindustrial levels due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The ocean takes up ~25% of these emissions and thereby mitigates climate change. The Global Carbon Budget annually quantifies the atmospheric CO2 sources (emissions) and sinks (e.g. ocean uptake), and I coordinate its ocean CO2 sink estimate. The uncertainty of the ocean sink estimate is huge: The range of estimates is 2.5 times larger than the CO2 emissions of the EU27. It is unknown whether the ocean sink has grown or stagnated since 2016. And yet, we face an even larger challenge with the imminent transition to a new regime: In the past, the ocean sink was controlled by fast-growing atmospheric…

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