Natural mechanisms in the ocean, both physical and biological, concentrate carbon in the deep ocean, resulting in lower atmospheric carbon dioxide. The signals of these carbon pumps overlap to create the observed carbon distribution in the ocean, making the individual impact of each pump difficult to disentangle. Noble gases have the potential to directly quantify the physical carbon solubility pump and to indirectly improve estimates of the biological organic carbon pump. Noble gases are biologically inert, can be precisely measured, and span a range of physical properties. We present dissolved neon, argon, and krypton data spanning the Atlantic, Southern, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans. Comparisons between deep-ocean observations and models of varying complexity enable the rates of processes that control the carbon solubility pump to be quantified and thus provide an important metric for ocean model skill. Noble gases also provide a powerful means of assessing air-sea gas exchange parameterizations.

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使用稀有气体评估海洋的碳泵。

海洋中的自然机制，无论是物理的还是生物的，都将碳浓缩在深海中，从而降低了大气中的二氧化碳。这些碳泵的信号重叠，从而在海洋中产生了可观察到的碳分布，从而使每个泵的单独冲击难以解开。稀有气体具有直接量化物理碳溶解度泵并间接改善生物有机碳泵估算值的潜力。稀有气体具有生物惰性，可以精确测量，并且具有多种物理性质。我们提供了横跨大西洋，南部，太平洋和北冰洋的溶解氖，氩和k数据。深海观测和复杂程度不同的模型之间的比较使控制碳溶解度泵的过程速率得以量化，从而为海洋模型技能提供了重要指标。稀有气体还提供了一种强大的方法来评估海气交换参数。