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Rik Wanninkhof is affiliated with the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on Oceanography and related subfields.

The scientist's work spans several interconnected domains, including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols.

Wanninkhof has contributed to numerous publications, many of which appear in key scientific venues such as:

  • Earth system science data
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Some recent notable publications include:

  • "Global Carbon Budget 2020," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2022," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2021," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Controls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins," 2020, Nature Communications

Wanninkhof frequently collaborates with a range of researchers including Brendan R. Carter, Richard A. Feely, Leticia Barbero, Simone R. Alin, and Peter Landschützer. These collaborations reflect a network of scientists engaged in related fields and topics.

Best Publications

  • Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean

    Rik Wanninkhof

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

    Christopher L. Sabine;Richard A. Feely;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • 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

  • Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean revisited

    Rik Wanninkhof

  • A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

    Robert Key;Alexander Kozyr;Chris Sabine;K. Lee

  • A cubic relationship between air-sea CO2 exchange and wind speed

    Rik Wanninkhof;Wade R. McGillis

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

    Nicolas Gruber;Dominic Clement;Brendan Carter;Brendan Carter;Richard A. Feely

  • Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing*

    Rik Wanninkhof;William E. Asher;David T. Ho;Colm Sweeney

  • Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks

    Josep G. Canadell;Pedro M.S. Monteiro;Marcos H. Costa;Leticia Cotrim Da Cunha

  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters

    Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson;Francisco P. Chavez;Ken O. Buesseler

  • 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

  • Global relationships of total alkalinity with salinity and temperature in surface waters of the world's oceans

    Kitack Lee;Lan T. Tong;Frank J. Millero;Christopher L. Sabine

  • Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements

    Colm Sweeney;Emanuel Gloor;Andrew R. Jacobson;Robert M. Key

  • Global air-sea flux of CO2: an estimate based on measurements of sea-air pCO2 difference.

    Taro Takahashi;Richard A. Feely;Ray F. Weiss;Rik H. Wanninkhof

  • The reinvigoration of the Southern Ocean carbon sink

    Peter Landschützer;Nicolas Gruber;F. Alexander Haumann;Christian Rödenbeck

  • Recommendations for autonomous underway pCO2 measuring systems and data-reduction routines

    Denis Pierrot;Craig Neill;Craig Neill;Kevin Sullivan;Robert Castle

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Taro Takahashi
Taro Takahashi Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nicolas Metzl
Nicolas Metzl Sorbonne University
Frank J. Millero
Frank J. Millero University of Miami
Truls Johannessen
Truls Johannessen University of Bergen
Ute Schuster
Ute Schuster University of Exeter
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Dorothee C. E. Bakker
Dorothee C. E. Bakker University of East Anglia

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