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The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. Mick Follows

    1. Department of Earth Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  2. Temel Oguz

    1. Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 40)

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Table of contents (11 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Ocean Carbonate Chemistry: The Aquatic Chemistry Fundamentals

    • James W. Murray
    Pages 1-29

  3. A Primer on Dissolved Organic Material and Heterotrophic Prokaryotes in the Oceans

    • David L. Kirchman
    Pages 31-63

  4. Modelling the Response of the Biological Pump to Climate Change

    • T. R. Anderson, I. J. Totterdell
    Pages 65-96

  5. The Dynamics of the Marine Nitrogen Cycle and its Influence on Atmospheric CO2 Variations

    • Nicolas Gruber
    Pages 97-148

  6. Exploration of Biogeochemical Temporal Variability

    • Tommy D. Dickey
    Pages 149-188

  7. Remote Sensing of the Ocean From Space

    • Gennady K. Korotaev
    Pages 189-216

  8. Mechanisms Controlling the Air-Sea Flux of CO 2 in the North Atlantic

    • Mick Follows, Richard G. Williams
    Pages 217-249

  9. The Role of the Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle: An Overview

    • Irina Marinov, Jorge L. Sarmiento
    Pages 251-295

  10. Ocean Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate: Climate Change Detection

    • Richard J. Matear
    Pages 297-315

  11. Glacial-Interglacial CO 2 Variations

    • Hezi Gildor
    Pages 317-352

  12. Data Assimilation into Marine Carbon Models

    • Richard J. Matear
    Pages 353-395
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Our desire to understand the global carbon cycle and its link to the climate system represents a huge challenge. These overarching questions have driven a great deal of scientific endeavour in recent years: What are the basic oceanic mechanisms which control the oceanic carbon reservoirs and the partitioning of carbon between ocean and atmosphere? How do these mechanisms depend on the state of the climate system and how does the carbon cycle feed back on climate? What is the current rate at which fossil fuel carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans and how might this change in the future? To begin to answer these questions we must first understand the distribution of carbon in the ocean, its partitioning between different ocean reservoirs (the "solubility" and "biological" pumps of carbon), the mechanisms controlling these reservoirs, and the relationship of the significant physical and biological processes to the physical environment. The recent surveys from the JGOFS and WOCE (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study and World Ocean Circulation Ex­ periment) programs have given us a first truly global survey of the physical and biogeochemical properties of the ocean. These new, high quality data provide the opportunity to better quantify the present oceans reservoirs of carbon and the changes due to fossil fuel burning. In addition, diverse process studies and time-series observations have clearly revealed the complexity of interactions between nutrient cycles, ecosystems, the carbon-cycle and the physical envi­ ronment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Earth Atmosphere and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Mick Follows

  • Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

    Temel Oguz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Ocean Carbon Cycle and Climate

  • Editors: Mick Follows, Temel Oguz

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series: IV:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2087-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2085-8Published: 03 August 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2086-5Published: 03 August 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2087-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1568-1238

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 395

  • Topics: Oceanography, Atmospheric Sciences

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