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Overview

Nicholas R. Bates is a researcher affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on oceanographic and atmospheric studies.

Their research output includes significant contributions to the understanding of global carbon cycles, particularly through multiple editions of the Global Carbon Budget, published in the journal Earth System Science Data. These papers cover the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, reflecting ongoing research into carbon budgets on a global scale:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020), Earth System Science Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021 (2022), Earth System Science Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2022 (2022), Earth System Science Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2023 (2023), Earth System Science Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2024 (2025), Earth System Science Data

Bates's research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models

Main subfields that overlap with their studies are Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The frequent publication venues for Bates include:

  • Earth System Science Data
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Oceanography

Their research collaborations involve multiple recurring co-authors, notably Rodney J. Johnson, Simone R. Alin, Wiley Evans, Denis Pierrot, and Rebecca Garley, each having numerous joint publications.

The combination of Bates's research topics, prolific collaborations, and publications in specialized journals highlight a career focused on the environmental and chemical dynamics of marine systems and their interaction with atmospheric processes.

Best Publications

  • Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea–air CO2 flux over the global oceans

    Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

  • Global sea-air CO2 flux based on climatological surface ocean pCO2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects

    Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Colm Sweeney;Alain Poisson

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2023

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  • Eddy/Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms

    Dennis J. McGillicuddy;Laurence A. Anderson;Nicholas R. Bates;Thomas Bibby

  • Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Donald K. Perovich;Donald K. Perovich;Robert S. Pickart;Zachary W. Brown

  • Overview of the US JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS): a decade-scale look at ocean biology and biogeochemistry

    Deborah K Steinberg;Craig A Carlson;Nicholas R Bates;Rodney J Johnson

  • A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

  • A Time-Series View of Changing Ocean Chemistry Due to Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic CO2 and Ocean Acidification

    Nicholas R. Bates;Yrene M. Astor;Matthew J Church;Kim Currie

  • Zooplankton vertical migration and the active transport of dissolved organic and inorganic carbon in the Sargasso Sea

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Craig A. Carlson;Nicholas R. Bates;Sarah A. Goldthwait

  • The Arctic Ocean marine carbon cycle: evaluation of air-sea CO 2 exchanges, ocean acidification impacts and potential feedbacks

    N. R. Bates;J. T. Mathis

  • Life on the margin: implications of ocean acidification on Mg-calcite, high latitude and cold-water marine calcifiers

    Andreas J. Andersson;Fred T. Mackenzie;Nicholas R. Bates

  • Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification

    J. Michael Beman;Cheryl-Emiliane Chow;Andrew L. King;Yuanyuan Feng

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Interannual variability of the oceanic CO2 sink in the subtropical gyre of the North Atlantic Ocean over the last 2 decades

    Nicholas R. Bates

  • Interannual variability in the North Atlantic ocean carbon sink

    Nicolas Gruber;Charles D. Keeling;Nicholas R. Bates

  • Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577 (DOI:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.009)

    T Takahashi;SC Sutherland;R Wanninkhof;C Sweeney

  • Corrigendum to "Climatological mean and decadal change in surface ocean pCO2, and net sea-air CO2 flux over the global oceans" [Deep Sea Res. II 56 (2009) 554-577]

    Taro Takahashi;Stewart C. Sutherland;Rik H. Wanninkhof;Colm Sweeney

  • Seasonal and interannual variability of oceanic carbon dioxide species at the U.S. JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site

    Nicholas R. Bates;Anthony F. Michaels;Anthony H. Knap

  • Pelagic functional group modeling: Progress, challenges and prospects

    Raleigh R. Hood;Edward A. Laws;Robert A. Armstrong;Nicholas R. Bates

  • Carbon-cycle imbalances in the Sargasso Sea

    Anthony F. Michaels;Nicholas R. Bates;Ken O. Buesseler;Craig A. Carlson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeremy T. Mathis
Jeremy T. Mathis National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Dennis A. Hansell
Dennis A. Hansell University of Miami
Anthony H. Knap
Anthony H. Knap Texas A&M University
Andreas J. Andersson
Andreas J. Andersson University of California, San Diego
Craig A. Carlson
Craig A. Carlson University of California, Santa Barbara
Anthony F. Michaels
Anthony F. Michaels University of Southern California
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa

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