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Atmospheric CO2 Exchange With the Biosphere and the Ocean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Roger Bergh  and
Reidar Nydal
Roger Bergh
Affiliation:
Radiological Dating Laboratory, The Norwegian Institute of Technology Trondheim, Norway
Reidar Nydal
Affiliation:
Radiological Dating Laboratory, The Norwegian Institute of Technology Trondheim, Norway
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Abstract

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We model the exchange of carbon between the different reservoirs (atmosphere, ocean mixed layer, deep ocean and biosphere). The influence of the biosphere is investigated using two extreme assumptions: 1) no net biospheric effect and 2) biospheric uptake of CO2 proportional to the atmospheric content of CO2 and time-dependent deforestation. Observations of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa and the South Pole may be fit by both these assumptions.

Type
II. Carbon Cycle in the Environment
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 503 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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