Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO
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                    Sink Due to Recent Climate Change

Le Quéré, Corinne; Rödenbeck, Christian; T. Buitenhuis, Erik; J. Conway, Thomas; Langenfelds, Ray; Gomez, Antony; Labuschagne, Casper; Ramonet, Michel; Nakazawa, Takakiyo; Metzl, Nicolas; Gillett, Nathan; Heimann, Martin

doi:10.1126/science.1136188

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Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO 2 Sink Due to Recent Climate Change

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Authors:

Corinne Le Quéré

Christian Rödenbeck

Erik T. Buitenhuis

Abstract

Based on observed atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration and an inverse method, we estimate that the Southern Ocean sink of CO 2 has weakened between 1981 and 2004 by 0.08 petagrams of carbon per year per decade relative to the trend expected from the large increase in atmospheric CO 2 . W...

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