Could CO2-induced land-cover feedbacks alter near-shore upwelling regimes?

AUTOR(ES)

Diffenbaugh, Noah S.

FONTE

National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The response of marine and terrestrial environments to global changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will likely be governed by both responses to direct environmental forcing and responses to Earth-system feedbacks induced by that forcing. It has been proposed that anthropogenic greenhouse forcing will intensify coastal upwelling in eastern boundary current regions [Bakun, A. (1990) Science 247, 198–201]. Focusing on the California Current, we show that biophysical land-cover–atmosphere feedbacks induced by CO2 radiative forcing enhance the radiative effects of CO2 on land–sea thermal contrast, resulting in changes in eastern boundary current total seasonal upwelling and upwelling seasonality. Specifically, relative to CO2 radiative forcing, land-cover–atmosphere feedbacks lead to a stronger increase in peak- and late-season near-shore upwelling in the northern limb of the California Current and a stronger decrease in peak- and late-season near-shore upwelling in the southern limb. Such changes will impact both marine and terrestrial communities [Bakun, A. (1990) Science 247, 198–201; Soto, C. G. (2001) Rev. Fish Biol. Fish. 11, 181–195; and Agostini, V. N. & Bakun, A. (2002) Fish. Oceanogr. 11, 129–142], and these and other Earth-system feedbacks should be expected to play a substantial role in shaping the response of eastern boundary current regions to CO2 radiative forcing.

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