The oceanic fixed nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets: Moving targets as we enter the anthropocene?

New data force us to raise previous estimates of oceanic denitrification. Our revised estimate of ~ 450 Tg N yr-1 (Tg = 1012 g) produces an oceanic fixed N budget with a large deficit (~ 200 Tg N yr-1) that can be explained only by positing an ocean that has deviated far from a steady-state, the nee... View More