Ocean-ICU Improving Carbon Understanding

Project Information

OceanICU

Grant agreement ID: 101083922

DOI

10.3030/101083922

EC signature date 24 October 2022

Start date 1 November 2022

End date 31 October 2027

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 13 094 052,25

EU contribution

€ 13 094 052,25

Coordinated by

NORCE RESEARCH AS
Norway

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Deliverables

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan for the project.

Data Management plan - first update

Data Management plan update

Documents, reports (9)

WP Implementation Plan from discussions at first GA

WP Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery, plus preliminary version of parameterisations delivered to WP6

Website with DEC Plan with integrated KPIs

DEC Plan with integrated KPIs

WP implementation plan developed at first GA
WP5 Implementation Plan

WP Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery

WP6 Implementation Plan

WP Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery

Report on WP8 stakeholder interactions meetings

Report on WP8 stakeholder interactions meetings Milestone M8.1-8.3

WP8 Implementation Plan

WP Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery

WP4 Implementation Plan and intial parameterisations

WP Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery and parameterisations

WP Implementation Plan and Dataset

Implementation Plan based on discussions at first GA including draft of how to achieve KPI delivery, plus report on merged dataset required for Task 2.1

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (45)

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Author(s): Yixin Zhao, P. Daniël van Denderen, Rémy Denéchère, Jonathan E. Falciani, Nis S. Jacobsen, Themistoklis Konstantinopoulos, Daniel Ottmann, Colleen M. Petrik, Karline Soetaert, Charles A. Stock, Ken H. Andersen
Published in: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2024, ISSN 2041-210X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.14465

Unexpected decline of the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023

Author(s): Jens Müller; Nicolas Gruber; Aline Schneuwly; Dorothee Bakker; Marion Gehlen; Luke Gregor; Judith Hauck; Peter Landschützer; Galen McKinley
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-5198321/V1

An Assessment of CO2 Storage and Sea-Air Fluxes for the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Between 1985 and 2018

Author(s): Fiz F. Pérez, M. Becker, N. Goris, M. Gehlen, M. López-Mozos, J. Tjiputra, A. Olsen, J. D. Müller, I. E. Huertas, T. T. T. Chau, V. Cainzos, A. Velo, G. Benard, J. Hauck, N. Gruber, Rik Wanninkhof
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023GB007862

Nature Geoscience

Author(s): Williams, J. R.; Giering, S. L. C.; Baker, C. A.; Pabortsava, K.; Briggs, N.; East, H.; Espinola, B.; Blackbird, S.; Le Moigne, F. A. C.; Villa-Alfageme, M.; Poulton, A. J.; Carvalho, F.; Pebody, C.; Saw, K.; Moore, C. M.; Henson, S. A.; Sanders, R.; Martin, A. P.
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2024, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41561-024-01602-2

Demersal fish biomass declines with temperature across productive shelf seas

Author(s): van Denderen, Daniel; Maureaud, Aurore A.; Andersen, Ken H.; Gaichas, Sarah; Lindegren, Martin; Petrik, Colleen M.; Stock, Charles A.; Collie, Jeremy
Published in: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2023, ISSN 1466-8238
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GEB.13732

Direct observational evidence of strong CO ₂ uptake in the Southern Ocean

Author(s): Yuanxu Dong; Dorothee C. E. Bakker; Thomas G. Bell; Mingxi Yang; Peter Landschützer; Judith Hauck; Christian Rödenbeck; Vassilis Kitidis; Seth M. Bushinsky; Peter S. Liss
Published in: Science Advances, 2024, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADN5781

Nature Communications

Author(s): Jerry F. Tjiputra; Damien Couespel; Richard Sanders
Published in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-57371-Y

Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems

Author(s): Jacob W Bentley, David Chagaris, Marta Coll, Johanna J Heymans, Natalia Serpetti, Carl J Walters, Villy Christensen
Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024, ISSN 1095-9289
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSAD213

When to add a new process to a model – and when not: A marine biogeochemical perspective

Author(s): Martin, Adrian P.; Dominguez, Angela Bahamondes; Baker, Chelsey A.; Baumas, Chloé M.J.; Bisson, Kelsey M.; Cavan, Emma; Freilich, Mara; Galbraith, Eric; Galí, Martí; Henson, Stephanie; Kvale, Karin F.; Lemmen, Carsten; Luo, Jessica Y.; McMonagle, Helena; Viríssimo, Francisco de Melo; Möller, Klas Ove; Richon, Camille; Suresh, Iyyappan; Wilson, Jamie D.; Woodstock, Matthew S.; Yool, Andrew
Published in: Ecological Modelling, 2024, ISSN 1872-7026
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ECOLMODEL.2024.110870

The global contribution of seasonally migrating copepods to the biological carbon pump

Author(s): Jérôme Pinti, Sigrún H. Jónasdóttir, Nicholas R. Record, André W. Visser
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography, 2024, ISSN 0024-3590
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/LNO.12335

The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna

Author(s): Gaël Mariani, Jérôme Guiet, Daniele Bianchi, Tim DeVries, Nicolas Barrier, Marc Troussellier & David Mouillot
Published in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-64576-8

Comparing in situ and satellite-derived primary production estimates in the Canary Current upwelling region

Author(s): Nauzet Hernández-Hernández a , Yeray Santana-Falcón a b , María F. Montero a , Mar Benavides c d e , Antonio Delgado-Huertas f , Xosé A. Álvarez-Salgado g , Peter Land h , Javier Arístegui a
Published in: Journal of Marine Systems, 2025, ISSN 1879-1573
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.JMARSYS.2025.104109

Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump

Author(s): Berzaghi, F.; Pinti, Jérôme; Aumont, Olivier; Maury, Olivier; Cosimano, Thomas; Wisz, Mary
Published in: Nature Climate Change, 2025, ISSN 1758-6798
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41558-025-02295-0

Effect of sampling bias on global estimates of ocean carbon export

Author(s): Stephanie Henson, Kelsey Bisson, Matthew L Hammond, Adrian Martin, Colleen Mouw and Andrew Yool
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2024, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/AD1E7F

Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?

Author(s): Andre W. Visser
Published in: Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 2025, ISSN 2378-2242
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/LOL2.70053

Sparse observations induce large biases in estimates of the global ocean CO2 sink: an ocean model subsampling experiment

Author(s): Judith Hauck; Cara Nissen; Peter Landschützer; Christian Rödenbeck; Seth Bushinsky; Are Olsen
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2023, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/RSTA.2022.0063

What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon

Author(s): Couespel, Damien; Tjiputra, Jerry
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, 2024, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/AD16E0

A Comprehensive Analysis of Air‐Sea CO₂ Flux Uncertainties Constructed From Surface Ocean Data Products

Author(s): Daniel J Ford; Josh Blannin; Jennifer Watts; Andrew Watson; Peter Landschützer; Annika Jersild; Jamie Shutler
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024GB008188

Riverine impact on future projections of marine primary production and carbon uptake

Author(s): Shuang Gao, Jörg Schwinger, Jerry Tjiputra, Ingo Bethke, Jens Hartmann, Emilio Mayorga, and Christoph Heinze
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2023, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/BG-20-93-2023

Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance

Author(s): Filippa Fransner, Are Olsen, Marius Årthun, François Counillon, Jerry Tjiputra, Annette Samuelsen & Noel Keenlyside
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, 2023, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-023-00791-9

Respiration patterns in the dark ocean

Author(s): Olivier Sulpis; David S. Trossman; Mark Holzer; Emil Jeansson; Siv K. Lauvset; Jack J. Middelburg
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.22541/essoar.167768128.81025673/v1

Constraining the trend in the ocean CO2 sink during 2000–2022

Author(s): Nicolas Mayot, Erik T. Buitenhuis, Rebecca M. Wright, Judith Hauck, Dorothee C. E. Bakker & Corinne Le Quéré
Published in: Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-52641-7

Machine learning reveals regime shifts in future ocean carbon dioxide fluxes inter-annual variability

Author(s): Couespel, Damien; Tjiputra, Jerry; Johannsen, Klaus; Ayar, Pradeebane Vaittinada; Jensen, Bjørnar
Published in: communications earth & environment, 2024, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-024-01257-2

Simulations of ocean deoxygenation in the historical era: insights from forced and coupled models

Author(s): Takano, Yohei; Ilyina, Tatiana; Tjiputra, Jerry; Eddebbar, Yassir A.; Berthet, Sarah; Bopp, Laurent; Buitenhuis, Erik; Butenschön, Momme; Christian, James R.; Dunne, John P.; Gröger, Matthias; Hayashida, Hakase; Hieronymus, Jenny; Koenigk, Torben; Krastin
Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2023.1139917

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean

Author(s): Chakraborty, Subhendu , Andersen, Ken H., Merico, Agostino and Riemann, Lasse
Published in: Science Advances, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/SCIADV.ADQ4693

In the Wake of Deeper Convection: Nonsteady State Anthropogenic Carbon in the Greenland Sea

Author(s): Are Olsen; Balamuralli Rajasakaren; Emil Jeansson; Siv K. Lauvset; Abdirahman M. Omar; Meike Becker
Published in: JGR Oceans, 2024, ISSN 2169-9291
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023JC020462

Nature Communications

Author(s): Nicolas Mayot; Erik T. Buitenhuis; Rebecca M. Wright; Judith Hauck; Dorothee C. E. Bakker; Corinne Le Quéré
Published in: Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-52641-7

Global Carbon Budget 2024

Author(s): Friedlingstein, Pierre; O'Sullivan, Michael; Jones, Matthew W.; Andrew, Robbie M.; Hauck, Judith; Landschützer, Peter; Le Quéré, Corinne; Li, Hongmei; Luijkx, Ingrid T.; Olsen, Are; Peters, Glen P.; Peters, Wouter; Pongratz, Julia; Sitch, Stephen; Canadell, Josep G.; Ciais, Philippe; Jackson, Robert B.; Alin, Simone R.; Arneth, Almut; Gregor, Luke; id_orcid0000-0001-6071-1857; Gruber, Nicolas; id_orcid0000-0002-2085-2310; et al.
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2025, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-17-965-2025

Carbon cycle feedbacks in an idealized simulation and a scenario simulation of negative emissions in CMIP6 Earth system models

Author(s): Ali Asaadi, Jörg Schwinger, Hanna Lee, Jerry Tjiputra, Vivek Arora, Roland Séférian, Spencer Liddicoat, Tomohiro Hajima, Yeray Santana-Falcón, and Chris D. Jones
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2024, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: European Geosciences Union
DOI: 10.5194/BG-21-411-2024

Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change

Author(s): Zouhair Lachkar, Marcela Cornejo-D'Ottone, Arvind Singh, Javier Arístegui, Boris Dewitte, Sarah Fawcett, Veronique Garçon, Elisa Lovecchio, Veronica Molina, P. N. M. Vinayachandran
Published in: Elementa Science of Anthropocene, 2024, ISSN 2325-1026
Publisher: University of California Press
DOI: 10.1525/ELEMENTA.2023.00088

Assessing the tropical Atlantic biogeochemical processes in the Norwegian Earth System Model

Author(s): S. Koseki; S. Koseki; L. R. Crespo; L. R. Crespo; J. Tjiputra; J. Tjiputra; F. Fransner; F. Fransner; N. S. Keenlyside; N. S. Keenlyside; N. S. Keenlyside; D. Rivas; D. Rivas; D. Rivas
Published in: Biogeosciences, 2024, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/BG-21-4149-2024

The Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle 1985–2018: Mean, Seasonal Cycle, Trends, and Storage

Author(s): Hauck, Judith , Gregor, Luke, Nissen, Cara, Patara, Lavinia, Hague, Mark, Mongwe, Precious, Bushinsky, Seth, Doney, Scott C, Gruber, Nicolas, Le Quéré, Corinne, Manizza, Manfredi, Mazloff, Matthew, Monteiro, Pedro MS and Terhaar, Jens
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023GB007848

The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product

Author(s): S. K. Lauvset; N. Lange; T. Tanhua; H. C. Bittig; A. Olsen; A. Kozyr; M. Álvarez; K. Azetsu-Scott; P. J. Brown; B. R. Carter; B. R. Carter; L. Cotrim da Cunha; M. Hoppema; M. P. Humphreys; M. Ishii; E. Jeansson; A. Murata; J. D. Müller; F. F. Pérez; C. Schirnick; R. Steinfeldt; T. Suzuki; A. Ulfsbo; A. Velo; R. J. Woosley; R. M. Key
Published in: Earth System Science Data, 2024, ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ESSD-16-2047-2024

Micronekton indicators evolution based on biophysically defined provinces

Author(s): Sarah Albernhe, Thomas Gorgues, Olivier Titaud, Patrick Lehodey, Christophe Menkes, and Anna Conchon
Published in: State of the Planet, 2025, ISSN 2752-0706
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17474341

Observational and Numerical Modeling Constraints on the Global Ocean Biological Carbon Pump

Author(s): Scott C. Doney; Kayla Alexis Mitchell; Stephanie Anne Henson; Emma L Cavan; Timothy DeVries; Nicolas Gruber; Judith Hauck; Colleen B. Mouw; Jens Daniel Müller; Francois W. Primeau
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024GB008156

Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake due to near-surface temperature gradients

Author(s): Daniel J. Ford, Jamie D. Shutler, Javier Blanco-Sacristán, Sophie Corrigan, Thomas G. Bell, Mingxi Yang, Vassilis Kitidis, Philip D. Nightingale, Ian Brown, Werenfrid Wimmer, David K. Woolf, Tânia Casal, Craig Donlon, Gavin H. Tilstone & Ian Ashton
Published in: Nature Geoscience, 2024, ISSN 1752-0908
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41561-024-01570-7

Unveiling pelagic-benthic coupling associated with the biological carbon pump in the Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean)

Author(s): Simon Ramondenc, Damien Eveillard, Katja Metfies, Morten H. Iversen, Eva-Maria Nöthig, Dieter Piepenburg, Christiane Hasemann & Thomas Soltwedel
Published in: Nature Communications, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-55221-X

Impacts of Vertical Migrants on Biogeochemistry in an Earth System Model

Author(s): Julia Getzlaff, Iris Kriest
Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, ISSN 1944-9224
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023GB007842

Stronger Oceanic CO2 Sink in Eddy-Resolving Simulations of Global Warming

Author(s): Damien Couespel, Marina Lévy, Laurent Bopp
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2023GL106172

Total population reports are ill-suited for global biomass estimation of wild animals

Author(s): Luca Santini, Fabio Berzaghi, Ana Benítez-López
Published in: PNAS, 2024, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: The National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/PNAS.2308958121

Biogeochemical‐Argo Floats Reveal Seasonality of the Biological Carbon Pump Influenced by the Lofoten Basin Eddy

Author(s): Koestner, D.; Clayton, S.; Lerner, P.; Jones‐Kellett, A. E.; Walker, S. L.
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, ISSN 1944-8007
Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
DOI: 10.1029/2024GL111937

Optimal phenology of life history events in Calanus finmarchicus: exit from diapause in relation to interannual variation in spring bloom timing and predatio

Author(s): Thomas R Anderson, Dag O Hessen, Wendy C Gentleman, Andrew Yool, Daniel J Mayor
Published in: Journal of Plankton Research, 2024, ISSN 1464-3774
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/PLANKT/FBAE028

Industrial fisheries have reversed the carbon sequestration by tuna carcasses into emissions

Author(s): David Mouillot, Suzie Derminon, Gaël Mariani, Inna Senina, Jean-Marc Fromentin, Patrick Lehodey, Marc Troussellier
Published in: Global Change Biology, 2024, ISSN 1365-2486
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.16823

Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats

Author(s): E. L. Cavan, N. Mackay, S. L. Hill, A. Atkinson, A. Belcher & A. Visser
Published in: Nature Communications, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature)
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-52135-6

Long-term measurements reveal a 100-day lag between peaks in phytoplankton chlorophyll and benthic bacterial abundance in the Fram Strait

Author(s): Simon Ramondenc; Morten H Iversen; Thomas Soltwedel
Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2024, ISSN 1095-9289
Publisher: Oxford University Press (on behalf of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea - ICES)
DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSAE113