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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-4491</article-id>
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<article-title>Impact of the variability of O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; biosphere exchange on modeled O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-based fossil fuel CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; emission estimates</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Faassen</surname>
<given-names>Kim</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>van der Woude</surname>
<given-names>Auke M.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6286-2621</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hooghiem</surname>
<given-names>Joram J. D.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1850-4130</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kaushik</surname>
<given-names>Aleya</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2516-8454</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hilman</surname>
<given-names>Boaz</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Peters</surname>
<given-names>Wouter</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-2070</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Pickers</surname>
<given-names>Penelope A.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1923-5163</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Luijkx</surname>
<given-names>Ingrid T.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3990-6737</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Geosciences Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>University of Groningen, Centre for Isotope Research, Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>24</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>35</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Kim Faassen et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Atmospheric oxygen (O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;) can be used to partition components of the carbon budget at global and regional scales. These methods generally assume a constant net biospheric O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;:CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; exchange ratio (ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt;), although the exchange ratios of the gross fluxes that form ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt;, assimilation (ER&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt;) and respiration (ER&lt;sub&gt;r&lt;/sub&gt;), vary across ecosystems and time, suggesting ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt; may also vary spatially and temporally. To investigate this, we implemented O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; fluxes in the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB4) by assigning plant functional type- and carbon pool-specific ER&lt;sub&gt;a&lt;/sub&gt; and ER&lt;sub&gt;r&lt;/sub&gt; values based on limited observations. This produces the first global O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; biosphere flux dataset with spatially and temporally varying fluxes (0.5&amp;deg; &amp;times; 0.5&amp;deg;, 3-hourly). Results show seasonal and spatial variability in ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt;, ranging from about 1.1 in winter to 0.8 in summer, with regional summer values differing by more than 0.1 across Europe. Temporal variability is primarily driven by changes in the relative contributions of photosynthesis and respiration, whereas spatial variability reflects differences in dominant plant functional types. The modeled ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt; range exceeds the currently recognized terrestrial O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;:CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; variability and may effect O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-based carbon partitioning methods. Neglecting ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt; variability can bias regional estimates of fossil fuel CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; signals derived from atmospheric potential oxygen. At a strongly biosphere-influenced location, a modeled O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;-derived fossil fuel CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; signal of 1.5 ppm is overestimated by nearly 12 ppm when ER&lt;sub&gt;net&lt;/sub&gt; variability is ignored. These results highlight the importance of accounting for biospheric contributions in O&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; partitioning methods.</p>
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