The ocean carbon cycle

T DeVries - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The ocean holds vast quantities of carbon that it continually exchanges with the atmosphere
through the air-sea interface. Because of its enormous size and relatively rapid exchange of …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - Climate change 2021 …, 2023 - cambridge.org
It is unequivocal that the increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) since the pre-industrial period are caused by human activities. The …

The global influence of localized dynamics in the Southern Ocean

SR Rintoul - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The circulation of the Southern Ocean connects ocean basins, links the deep and shallow
layers of the ocean, and has a strong influence on global ocean circulation, climate …

Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning

T DeVries, M Holzer, F Primeau - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The ocean is the largest sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), having absorbed
roughly 40 per cent of CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial era,. Recent data …

Magnitude, trends, and variability of the global ocean carbon sink from 1985 to 2018

T DeVries, K Yamamoto, R Wanninkhof… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This contribution to the RECCAP2 (REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes)
assessment analyzes the processes that determine the global ocean carbon sink, and its …

Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity

JK Moore, W Fu, F Primeau, GL Britten, K Lindsay… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Climate change projections to the year 2100 may miss physical-biogeochemical feedbacks
that emerge later from the cumulative effects of climate warming. In a coupled climate …

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

Reduced CO2 uptake and growing nutrient sequestration from slowing overturning circulation

Y Liu, JK Moore, F Primeau, WL Wang - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Current Earth system models (ESMs) project dramatic slowing (28–42% by 2100) of
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Southern Meridional Overturning Circulation …

Ventilation of the Southern Ocean pycnocline

AK Morrison, DW Waugh, AMC Hogg… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ocean ventilation is the transfer of tracers and young water from the surface down into the
ocean interior. The tracers that can be transported to depth include anthropogenic heat and …