Timescales for detection of trends in the ocean carbon sink

Nature

Volumn 530, Issue 7591, 2016, Pages 469-472

  McKinley, Galen A ^a   Pilcher, Darren J ^a,b   Fay, Amanda R ^a   Lindsay, Keith ^c   Long, Matthew C ^c   Lovenduski, Nicole S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CEMENT; FOSSIL FUEL; CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE; TREND ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; OBSERVATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

OCEANIC REGIONS;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBSERVATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84959378421     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature16958     Document Type: Article

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