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AB - Uptake and Storage of Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean: The Global C02 Survey Richard A. Feely Pacific Marine and Environmental Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • Seattle, Washington USA Christopher L. Sabine University of Washington • Seattle, Washington USA Taro Takahashi Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Palisades, New York USA Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Miami, Florida USA Introduction Human activity is rapidly changing the composi- atmosphere. A significant impetus for carbon cycle tion of the earth's atmosphere, contributing to warm- research over the past several decades has been to ing from excess carbon dioxide (CO2) along with other achieve a better understanding of the ocean's role as a trace gases such as water vapor, chlorofluorocarbons, sink for anthropogenic CO2. There are only three global methane and nitrous oxide. These anthropogenic reservoirs with exchange rates fast enough to vary sig- "greenhouse gases" play a critical role in controlling nificantly on the scale of decades to centuries: the the earth's climate because they increase the infrared atmosphere, the terrestrial biosphere and the ocean. opacity of the atmosphere, causing the surface of the Approximately 93% of the carbon is located in the planet to warm. 
TI - Uptake and Storage of Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean: The Global CO2 Survey
JF - Oceanography
DO - 10.5670/oceanog.2001.03
DA - 2001-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/uptake-and-storage-of-carbon-dioxide-in-the-ocean-the-global-co2-C4CleaAn80
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