Ozone Depletion Reduces Ocean Carbon Uptake

Sunday, August 9, 2009 - 02:35 in Earth & Climate

The Southern Ocean plays an important role in mitigating climate change because it acts as a sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Most current models predict that the strength of the Southern Ocean carbon dioxide sink should increase as atmospheric carbon dioxide rises, but observations show that this has not been the case.

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