Oceanic carbon dioxide uptake in a model of century-scale global warming

Science

Volumn 274, Issue 5291, 1996, Pages 1346-1350

  Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a   Le Quéré, Corinne ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ORGANIC MATTER;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AIR/SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERE/OCEAN INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MODEL; OCEANIC UPTAKE;

EID: 0029660118     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.274.5291.1346     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank R. Stouffer for assisting us in implementing the coupled model, and both him and S. Manabe for their enthusiastic support and comments on the manuscript. The carbon cycle model was developed by R. Murnane, and both he and R. Slater provided important help interpreting the results. R. Toggweller, D. Baker, and D. Harvey provided helpful comments on the manuscript. T. Hughes helped analyze the results. We thank J. Mahlman for his comments and the support that the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory has provided for our research over a period of many years through the ocean group headed by R. Toggweiler. Additional support was provided by grants from the NOAA Office of Global Programs, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy.