Tracking the variable North Atlantic sink for atmospheric CO2
3 páginas, 1 tabla, 3 figuras.-- Watson, Andrew J. . et al. The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here,...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/28134 2024-02-11T10:06:02+01:00 Tracking the variable North Atlantic sink for atmospheric CO2 Watson, Andrew J. Padín, X. A. Ríos, Aida F. 2009-12-04 999902 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10261/28134 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1177394 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1177394 Science 326: 1391-1393 (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/28134 doi:10.1126/science.1177394 none Carbon dioxide Oceans North Atlantic artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2009 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1177394 2024-01-16T09:28:30Z 3 páginas, 1 tabla, 3 figuras.-- Watson, Andrew J. . et al. The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here, we show observations indicating substantial variability in the CO2 uptake by the North Atlantic on time scales of a few years. Further, we use measurements from a coordinated network of instrumented commercial ships to define the annual flux into the North Atlantic, for the year 2005, to a precision of about 10%. This approach offers the prospect of accurately monitoring the changing ocean CO2 sink for those ocean basins that are well covered by shipping routes. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Science 326 5958 1391 1393 |
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3 páginas, 1 tabla, 3 figuras.-- Watson, Andrew J. . et al. The oceans are a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Historically, observations have been too sparse to allow accurate tracking of changes in rates of CO2 uptake over ocean basins, so little is known about how these vary. Here, we show observations indicating substantial variability in the CO2 uptake by the North Atlantic on time scales of a few years. Further, we use measurements from a coordinated network of instrumented commercial ships to define the annual flux into the North Atlantic, for the year 2005, to a precision of about 10%. This approach offers the prospect of accurately monitoring the changing ocean CO2 sink for those ocean basins that are well covered by shipping routes. Peer reviewed |
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