Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning

Tim DeVries (), Mark Holzer and Francois Primeau
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Tim DeVries: University of California
Mark Holzer: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Francois Primeau: University of California

Nature, 2017, vol. 542, issue 7640, 215-218

Abstract: Modelling of ocean carbon uptake for the 1980s to the 2000s shows that stronger upper-ocean overturning caused less carbon to be absorbed by the oceans in the 1990s, but that as the overturning circulation weakens more carbon is now being absorbed.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nature21068

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