Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Revised estimates of ocean-atmosphere CO2 flux are consistent with ocean carbon inventory

  • Andrew J. Watson,
  • Ute Schuster,
  • Jamie D. Shutler,
  • Thomas Holding,
  • Ian G. C. Ashton,
  • Peter Landschützer,
  • David K. Woolf,
  • Lonneke Goddijn-Murphy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18203-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Ocean uptake of carbon dioxide impacts the climate, but flux estimates from surface measurements have not been corrected for temperature differences between surface and water sampling depth. Making that correction, the authors find previous estimates for ocean uptake have been substantially underestimated.