Scientific papers

OceanICU work is either described or referenced in the scientific papers listed below, with active links to the open access platforms they are hosted on. 

Lead authors are not, in all cases, members of the OceanICU consortium. However, team members have contributed to each paper.

Title: The combined impact of fisheries and climate change on future carbon sequestration by oceanic macrofauna
Date: 27 October 2025
Authors: Gaël Mariani et al. 
Journal: Nature Communications

Title: Micronekton indicators evolution based on biophysically defined provinces
Date: 30 September 2025
Authors: Sarah Albernhe et al. 
Journal: State of the Planet

Title: Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023
Date: 02 September 2025
Authors: Jens Daniel Müller et al. 
Journal: Nature Climate Change

Title: Sequestration by the biological carbon pump: Do we really know what we are talking about?
Date: 11 August 2025
Authors: Andre W. Visser
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Title: New Insights on Dissolved Organic Matter Cycling in the Cape Verde Frontal Zone From Its Optically Active Fraction
Date: 15 July 2025
Authors: R. Campanero Nieto et al. 
Journal: JGR Oceans 

Title: Biogeochemical-Argo Floats Reveal Seasonality of the Biological Carbon Pump Influenced by the Lofoten Basin Eddy
Date: 14 June 2025
Authors: D. Koestner, S. Clayton, P. Lerner, A. E. Jones-Kellett, S. L. Walker
Journal:  AGU Geophysical Research Letters

Title: Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump
Date: 27 March 2025
Authors: F. Berzaghi, Jérôme Pinti, Olivier Aumont, Olivier Maury, Thomas Cosimano and Mary S. Wisz 
Journal: Nature Climate Change

Title: Global Carbon Budget 2024
Date: 14 March 2025
Authors: Pierre Friedlingstei, Michael O’SullivanMatthew W. JonesRobbie M. AndrewJudith Hauck et al
Journal:  Copernicus Publications

Title: Marine ecosystem role in setting up preindustrial and future climate
Date: 05 March, 2025
Authors: Jerry F. Tjiputra, Damien Couespel and Richard Sanders
Journal: Nature Communications (2025)

Title: Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean
Date: 19 February 2025
Authors: Subhendu Chakraborty et al. 
Journal: Science Advances

Title: Unveiling pelagic-benthic coupling associated with the biological carbon pump in the Fram Strait (Arctic Ocean)
Date: 20 January 2025
Authors: Simon Ramondenc et al. 
Journal: Nature Communications (2025)

Title: Inefficient transfer of diatoms through the subpolar Southern Ocean twilight zone
Date: 28 November 2024
Authors: J. R. Williams… Stephanie Henson, Richard Sanders
Journal: Nature Geoscience (2024)

Title: FEISTY Fortran library and R package to integrate fish and fisheries with biogeochemical models
Date: 28 November 2024
Authors: Yixin Zhao et al. 
Journal: British Ecological Society 

Title: A Comprehensive Analysis of Air-Sea CO2 Flux Uncertainties Constructed From Surface Ocean Data Products
Date:
01 November 2024
Authors:
Daniel J. Ford et al.
Journal:
Global Biogeochemical Cycles Volume 38, Issue 11

Title: Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake due to near-surface temperature gradients
Date: 25 October 2024
Authors: Ford, D.J., Shutler, J.D., Blanco-Sacristán, J. et al. 
Journal: Nature Geoscience. Volume 17, 1135–1140, (2024)

Title: Long-term measurements reveal a 100-day lag between peaks in phytoplankton chlorophyll and benthic bacterial abundance in the Fram Strait
Date:
October 2024
Authors:
Simon Ramondenc et al. 
Journal:
ICES Journal of Marine Science

Title: Assessing the tropical Atlantic biogeochemical processes in the Norwegian Earth System Model
Date:
26 September 2024
Authors:
Shunya Koseki et al. 
Journal:
Biogeosciences

Title: When to add a new process to a model – and when not: A marine biogeochemical perspective
Date:
24 September 2024
Authors:
Adrian P. Martin et al. 
Journal:
Ecological Modelling

Title: Constraining the trend in the ocean CO2 sink during 2000–2022
Date: 17 September 2024
Authors: Mayot, N. , Buitenhuis, E. T. , Wright, R. M. , Hauck, J. , Bakker, D. C. and Le Quéré, C.
Journal: Nature Communication

Title: Antarctic krill sequester similar amounts of carbon to key coastal blue carbon habitats
Date: 08 September 2024
Authors: E. L. Cavan et al. 
Journal: Nature Communications volume 15, Article number: 7842 (2024)

Title: Eddy-driven diazotroph distribution in the subtropical North Atlantic: horizontal variability prevails over particle sinking speed
Date: 02 August 2024
Authors:E. Cerdán-García et al. 
Journal: Communications Biology

Title: Direct observational evidence of strong CO2 uptake in the  Southern Ocean
Date: 24 July 2024
Authors: Dong, Y. , Bakker, D. C. , Bell, T. G. , Yang, M. , Landschützer, P, Hauck, J. , Rödenbeck, C. , Kitidis, V., Bushinsky, S. M. and Liss, P. S.
Journal: Science Advances

Title: Impacts of Vertical Migrants on Biogeochemistry in an Earth System Model.
Date: 26 July 2024
Authors: Getzlaff, J., & Kriest, I.
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(7).

Title: Observational and Numerical Modeling Constraints on the Global Ocean Biological Carbon Pump
Date: 17 June 2024
Authors: Scott C. Doney, Kayla A. Mitchell, Stephanie A. Henson, Emma Cavan,
Tim DeVries, Nicolas Gruber, Judith Hauck, Colleen B. Mouw, Jens D. Müller, and
Francois W. Primeau 
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Title: Optimal phenology of life history events in Calanus finmarchicus: exit from diapause in relation to interannual variation in spring bloom timing and predation
Date: 7 June 2024
Authors: T. R. Anderson et al.
Journal: Journal of Plankton Research, 2024

Title:  In the Wake of Deeper Convection: Nonsteady State Anthropogenic Carbon in the Greenland Sea.
Date: 2 June 2024
Authors: Olsen, A., Rajasakaren, B., Jeansson, E., Lauvset, S. K., Omar, A. M., & Becker, M.
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(6).

Title: The annual update GLODAPv2.2023: the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product
Date: 30 April 2024
Authors: Siv K. Lauvset et al.
Journal: Earth System Science Data. Copernicus

Title: An Assessment of CO2 Storage and Sea-Air Fluxes for the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Between 1985 and 2018
Date: 19 April 2024
Authors: Fiz F. Pérez et al.
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, 38 (4)

Title: Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change
Date: 07 March 2024
Authors: Zouhair Lachkar et al.
Journal: Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene (2024) 12 (1): 00088

Title: Machine learning reveals regime shifts in future ocean carbon dioxide fluxes inter-annual variability
Date: 24 February 2024
Authors: Damien Couespel et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment volume 5, Article number: 99 (2024)

Title: Stronger Oceanic CO2 Sink in Eddy-Resolving Simulations of Global Warming
Date: 13 February 2024
Authors: Damien Couespel et al.
Journal: Geophysical Research Letters Volume 51, Issue4

Title: Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems
Date: 24 Jan 2024
Authors: Jacob W Bentley et al.
Journal: ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 81, Issue 2

Title: Carbon cycle feedbacks in an idealized simulation and a scenario simulation of negative emissions in CMIP6 Earth system models
Date: 23 Jan 2024
Authors: Jörg Schwinger et al.
Journal: European Geoscience Union Volume 21, Issue 2

Title: Effect of sampling bias on global estimates of ocean carbon export
Date: 22 Jan 2024
Authors: Stephanie Henson et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters, Volume 19, Number 2

Title: Total population reports are ill-suited for global biomass estimation of wild animals
Date: 16 Jan 2024
Authors: Luca Santini et al.
Journal: PNAS Vol. 121 | No. 4

Title: A Synthesis of Global Coastal Ocean Greenhouse Gas Fluxes
Date: 20 Jan 2024
Authors: L. Resplandy et al.
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, 38 (1)

Title: What goes in must come out: the oceanic outgassing of anthropogenic carbon
Date: 10 Jan 2024
Authors: Damien Couespel et al.
Journal: Environmental Research Letters 19 014086

Title: Editorial: Constraining uncertainties in hindcasts and future projections of marine deoxygenation
Date: 08 Jan 2024
Authors: Masahito Shigemitsu et al.
Journal: Frontiers

Title: Simulations of ocean deoxygenation in the historical era: insights from forced and coupled models
Date: 13 November 2023
Authors: Yohei Takano et al.
Journal: Front. Mar. Sci. Sec. Global Change and the Future Ocean. Volume 10 – 2023

Title: The Southern Ocean Carbon Cycle 1985–2018: Mean, Seasonal Cycle, Trends, and Storage
Date: 10 November 2023
Authors: Judith Hauck et al.
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023, 37 (11)

Title: On the Origins of Open Ocean Oxygen Minimum Zones
Date: 13 August 2023
Authors: Xabier Davila et al.
Journal: JGR Oceans

Title: Respiration Patterns in the Dark Ocean
Date: 15 August 2023
Authors: Olivier Sulpis et al.
Journal: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2024, 37 (8)

Title: Demersal fish biomass declines with temperature across productive shelf seas
Date: 13 July 2023
Authors: Daniel van Denderen et al.
Journal: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32 (10)

Title: Industrial fisheries have reversed the carbon sequestration by tuna carcasses into emissions
Date: 04 July 2023
Authors: David Mouillot et al.
Journal: Global Change Biology, Volume29, Issue 17

Title: Sparse observations induce large biases in estimates of the global ocean CO2 sink: an ocean model subsampling experiment
Date: 08 May 2023
Authors: Judith Hauck et al.
Journal: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.38120220063

Title: Phytoplankton abundance in the Barents Sea is predictable up to five years in advance
Date: 24 April 2023
Authors: Filippa Fransner et al.
Journal: Communications Earth & Environment volume 4, Article number: 141 (2023)

Title: The global contribution of seasonally migrating copepods to the biological carbon pump
Date: 07 March 2023
Authors: Jérôme Pinti et al.
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography Volume68, Issue5

Title: Riverine impact on future projections of marine primary production and carbon uptake
Date: 09 Jan 2023
Authors: Shuang Gao et al.
Journal: European Geosciences Union Biogeosciences, 20, 93–11Science Advances