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| Mckinley, Galen A.; Fay, Amanda R.; Eddebbar, Yassir A.; Gloege, Lucas; Lovenduski, Nicole S.. |
| The ocean has absorbed the equivalent of 39% of industrial‐age fossil carbon emissions, significantly modulating the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 and its associated impacts on climate. Despite the importance of the ocean carbon sink to climate, our understanding of the causes of its interannual‐to‐decadal variability remains limited. This hinders our ability to attribute its past behavior and project its future. A key period of interest is the 1990s, when the ocean carbon sink did not grow as expected. Previous explanations of this behavior have focused on variability internal to the ocean or associated with coupled atmosphere/ocean modes. Here, we use an idealized upper ocean box model to illustrate that two external forcings are sufficient to explain... |
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Palavras-chave: Carbon cycle; Ocean carbon sink; Forced; Internal. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00676/78775/80950.pdf |
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