Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) is one of the most important greenhouse gases;its concentration and distribution have important implications on climate change. The El Ni?o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is th...Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) is one of the most important greenhouse gases;its concentration and distribution have important implications on climate change. The El Ni?o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the Earth’s strongest climate fluctuation on inter-annual time scales and has global impacts. However, to date, there is no research on how ENSO affects the spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> concentration. In this study, we used spatial CO<sub>2</sub> data from the ENVIronmentSATellite (ENVISAT) and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), the long duration monthly mean atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> from Mauna Loa Observatory, Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) from Earth System Research Laboratory to analyze the way that ENSO affects spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in South America, which is affected by ENSO seriously. Our research revealed that monthly CO<sub>2</sub> growth rate has a moderate, positive correlation relationship with MEI. We used geostatistics to predict and simulate the spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> and found that in south of 12°S, CO<sub>2</sub> concentration of ENSO warm episode is lower than the one of ENSO cold and neutral episodes. ENSO impacts CO<sub>2</sub> spatial distribution mainly in November, December, January and February;moderate-high concentration zone of ENSO warm episode more concentrates in the northern part of South America.展开更多
文摘Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) is one of the most important greenhouse gases;its concentration and distribution have important implications on climate change. The El Ni?o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the Earth’s strongest climate fluctuation on inter-annual time scales and has global impacts. However, to date, there is no research on how ENSO affects the spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> concentration. In this study, we used spatial CO<sub>2</sub> data from the ENVIronmentSATellite (ENVISAT) and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), the long duration monthly mean atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> from Mauna Loa Observatory, Multivariate ENSO Index (MEI) from Earth System Research Laboratory to analyze the way that ENSO affects spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> concentration in South America, which is affected by ENSO seriously. Our research revealed that monthly CO<sub>2</sub> growth rate has a moderate, positive correlation relationship with MEI. We used geostatistics to predict and simulate the spatial distribution of CO<sub>2</sub> and found that in south of 12°S, CO<sub>2</sub> concentration of ENSO warm episode is lower than the one of ENSO cold and neutral episodes. ENSO impacts CO<sub>2</sub> spatial distribution mainly in November, December, January and February;moderate-high concentration zone of ENSO warm episode more concentrates in the northern part of South America.
