Open AccessMoored Ocean Buoy Tracks Marine Carbon Cycle Variations
Author(s) -
Mark von Zastrow
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2016eo047783
Subject(s) - buoy , environmental science , oceanography , atmosphere (unit) , pacific ocean , carbon cycle , climatology , meteorology , geology , geography , ecology , ecosystem , biology
Years of data from a North Pacific ocean station show that the ocean's ability to pull carbon out of the atmosphere is controlled by biological and physical processes that change between seasons.