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Ocean carbon uptake widely underestimated – Science Daily
The world’s oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.
The world’s oceans soak up more carbon than most scientific models suggest, according to new research.Previous estimates of the movement of carbon (known as “flux”) between the atmosphere and oceans have not accounted for temperature differences at the water’s surface and a few metres below.
The new study, led by the University of Exeter, includes this — and finds significantly higher net flux of carbon into the oceans.
It calculates CO2 fluxes from 1992 to 2018, finding up to twice as much n…
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