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The oceanic sink for carbon dioxide

Christopher L. Sabine and Richard A. Feely

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA, Seattle, Washington

Chapter 3 In Greenhouse Gas Sinks, D. Reay, N. Hewitt, J. Grace, and K. Smith (eds.), CABI Publishing, Oxfordshire, UK, 31–49 (2007).
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• Outline of Paper
  3.1 Introduction
  3.2 Pre-industrial Carbon Fluxes
  3.3 Modern Carbon Fluxes
  3.3.1 Effect of surface sea water pCO₂ variations on CO₂ fluxes
  3.3.2 Effect of gas transfer velocity on CO₂ fluxes
  3.3.3 CO₂ flux variability
  3.4 Uptake of Anthropogenic CO₂
  3.4.1 Modern CO₂ uptake rates
  3.4.2 Long-term accumulation of anthropogenic CO₂
  3.4.3 Changes in ocean uptake rate
  3.5 Future Oceanic Uptake of Anthropogenic CO₂
  3.5.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks
  3.5.2 Carbon–climate feedbacks
  3.5.3 Variability in feedback timescales
  3.6 Conclusions
  References
  Gallery of Figures and Tables
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