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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-175
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-175
27 Feb 2024
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Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) climatologies, fluxes, and trends – Part B: Sea-air fluxes

Sankirna D. Joge, Anoop Sharad Mahajan, Shrivardhan Hulswar, Christa Marandino, Marti Gali, Thomas Bell, Mingxi Yang, and Rafel Simo

Abstract. Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) significantly contributes to cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation in the marine environment. DMS is ventilated from the ocean to the atmosphere, and in most models, this flux is calculated using seawater DMS concentrations and a sea-air flux parameterization. Here, climatological seawater DMS concentrations from interpolation and parameterization techniques are passed through seven flux parametrizations to estimate the DMS flux. The seasonal means of calculated fluxes are compared to identify differences in absolute values and spatial distribution, which show large differences depending on the flux parameterization used. In situ flux observations were used to validate the estimated fluxes from all seven parameterizations. Even though we see a correlation between the estimated and observed values, all methods underestimate the fluxes in the higher range (>20 µmol m-2 d-1) and overestimate the fluxes in the lower range (< 20 µmol m-2 d-1). The estimated uncertainty in DMS fluxes is driven by the uncertainty in seawater DMS concentrations in some regions but by the choice of flux parameterization in others. We show that the resultant flux is hence highly sensitive to both and suggest that there needs to be an improvement in the estimation methods of global seawater DMS concentration and sea-air fluxes for accurately modeling the effect of DMS on the atmosphere.

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14 Oct 2024
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) climatologies, fluxes, and trends – Part 2: Sea–air fluxes
Sankirna D. Joge, Anoop S. Mahajan, Shrivardhan Hulswar, Christa A. Marandino, Martí Galí, Thomas G. Bell, Mingxi Yang, and Rafel Simó
Biogeosciences, 21, 4453–4467, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-4453-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-4453-2024, 2024
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Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is the largest natural source of sulfur into the atmosphere and leads to...
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