The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO₂

Christopher L. Sabine,^1* Richard A. Feely,¹ Nicolas Gruber,² Robert M. Key,³ Kitack Lee,⁴ John L. Bullister,¹ Rik Wanninkhof,⁵ C. S. Wong,⁶ Douglas W. R. Wallace,⁷ Bronte Tilbrook,⁸ Frank J. Millero,⁹ Tsung-Hung Peng,⁵ Alexander Kozyr,¹⁰ Tsueno Ono,¹¹ Aida F. Rios¹²

¹National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, USA.
²University of California–Los Angeles, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
³Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Forrestal Campus/Sayre Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
⁴Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Nam-gu, Hyoja-dong, Pohang 790-784, South Korea.
⁵NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, 4301 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
⁶Institute of Ocean Sciences, Climate Chemistry Laboratory, Post Office Box 6000, Sidney, BC V8L 4B2, Canada.
⁷Forschungsbereich Marine Biogeochemie, Leibniz Institut für Meereswissenschafte, an der Universität Kiel, (IFM-GEOMAR), Düsternbrooker Weg 20, D-24105 Kiel, Germany.
⁸Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Marine Research and Antarctic Climate and Ecosystem Cooperative Research Center, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
⁹University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Division of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, FL 33149, USA.
¹⁰Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Mail Stop 6335, Oak Ridge, TN 37831–6335, USA.
¹¹Frontier Research System for Global Change/Institute for Global Change Research, Sumitomo Hamamatsu-cho, Building 4F, 1-18-16 Hamamatsutyo, Minato-ku, 105-0013, Japan.
¹²Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Consejo Superior de Investigationes Cientificas, c/Eduardo Cabello, 6, 36208 Vigo, Spain.

Science, 305(5682), 367–371 (2004)
Copyright ©2004 by The American Association for the Advancement of Science. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

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  Abstract

  Distribution and inventories of anthropogenic CO₂ in the ocean

  The ocean's role in the global carbon cycle

  Future changes

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