Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

A committed fourfold increase in ocean oxygen loss

  • Andreas Oschlies

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22584-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Ocean warming and changing circulation as a result of climate change are driving down oxygen levels and threatening ecosystems. Here the author shows that though immediate cessation of anthropogenic CO2 emissions would halt upper ocean oxygen loss, it would continue in the deep ocean for 100 s of years.