Possible Effects of Iron Fertilization in The SouthernOcean on Atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> Concentration
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Recently, it was proposed (Baum, 1990 and Martin et al., 1990a, 1990b) that the southern ocean should be fertilized with iron to stimulate biological productivity, thus enhancing the flux of organic carbon from surface to depth, thereby lowering the concentration of inorganic arbon in surface water and in turn the atmospheric CO2 concentration. We explore the possible impact of a hypothetical iron fertilization on atmospheric CO2 levels during the next century using a high-latitude exchange/interior diffusion advection model. Assuming as an upper-limit scenario that it is possible to stimulate the uptake of the abundant nutrients in the southern ocean, the maximum atmospheric CO2 depletion is 58 ppm after 50 years and 107 ppm after 100 years. This scenario requires completely effective Fe fertilization to be carded out over 16% of the world ocean area. Sensitivity stud/es and comparison with other models suggest that the errors in these limits due to uncertainties in the transport parameters, which are determined by calibrating the model with radiocarbon and validated with CFC-11 measurements, range from -29% to +17%. If ironstimulated biological productivity is halted during the six winter months, the additional oceanic CO2 uptake is reduced by 18%. Possible changes in surface water alkalinity alter the result of iron fertilization by less than +9% to-28%. Burial of the iron-induced particle flux as opposed to remineralization in the deep ocean Copyright 1991 by the American Geophysical Union. Paper number 91GB00878. 0886-6236/91/91GB-00878510.0 has virtually no influence on the atmospheric response for the considered time scale of 100 years. If iron fertilization were terminated, CO2 would escape from the ocean and soon cancel the effect of the fertilization. The factors which determine the atmospheric CO2 reduction most strongly are the area of fertilization, the extent to which biology utilizes the abundant nutrients, and the magnitude of future CO2 emissions. The possible ffect of fertilizing the ocean with iron is small compared to the expected atmospheric CO2 increase over the next century, unless the increase is kept small by means of stringent measures to control CO2 emissions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006