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Introduction to Special Section: Ocean Measurements and Models of Carbon Sources and Sinks
Author(s) -
Wallace Douglas W. R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
global biogeochemical cycles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.512
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1944-9224
pISSN - 0886-6236
DOI - 10.1029/2000gb001354
Subject(s) - biogeochemical cycle , carbon fibers , environmental science , oceanography , carbon cycle , carbon sink , total inorganic carbon , special section , carbon dioxide , geology , computer science , environmental chemistry , chemistry , climate change , ecology , ecosystem , engineering physics , algorithm , engineering , organic chemistry , composite number , biology
This issue of Global Biogeochemical Cycles contains a remarkable set of papers, which critically evaluate a variety of model‐ and observation‐based approaches addressing the oceanic distribution, storage, and transport of CO 2 . Three of the papers are concerned with observation‐based estimates of excess (or anthropogenic) CO 2 [ Coatanoan et al ., this issue; Sabine and Feely , this issue; Chen , this issue]. They focus on the approaches, assumptions, and uncertainties involved in detecting the excess CO 2 signal above the ocean's large and variable natural dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) background.