Global warming and marine carbon cycle feedbacks on future atmospheric CO2

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5413, 1999, Pages 464-467

  Joos, Fortunat ^a   Plattner, Gian Kasper ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; GLOBAL WARMING;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE FIXATION; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; GOVERNMENT; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

EID: 0033574782     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5413.464     Document Type: Article

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31. We thank E. Maier-Reimer for helpful comments. This work was supported by the European Commission Programme Climate and Environment (grants ENV4-CT97-0495, ENV4-CT95-0130, ENV4-CT95-0131, and ENV4-CT97-0643), the Swiss Federal Office for Science and Education (grants 97.0414, 95.0470, 95.0471, and 97.0414), and the Swiss National Science Foundation.