Sentences with phrase «ocean carbon storage»

The paleoclimate record suggests that these transitions were accompanied by changes in the ocean's water mass distribution, which likely played a key role in the glacial - interglacial shifts themselves, by affecting ocean carbon storage and thus atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate (Geophysical Research Letters)

They include the physical, chemical and biological processes that control the oceanic storage of carbon, and are calibrated against geochemical and isotopic constraints on how ocean carbon storage has changed over the decades and carbon storage in terrestrial vegetation and soils, and how it responds to increasing CO2, temperature, rainfall and other factors.

Ito, T., A. Bracco, C. Deutsch, H. Frenzel, M. Long, and Y. Takano, 2015: Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate.

Everett F Sargent # 12: Ocean carbon storage is ~ 20x land storage, but average ocean sink in a given year is about the same as the average land sink.

University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins joined a team of researchers to determine how hydrothermal vents influence ocean carbon storage.

Not exact matches

He added that scientists need to monitor carbon storage and possible temperature increases in oceans at depths greater than 2 kilometers in addition to adding biogeochemical sensing capacity.

The lab results are now being integrated into biogeochemical models, which calculate the productivity of the ocean of the future and the limits of carbon storage.

«Living a «mixotrophic» lifestyle: Some tiny plankton may have big effect on ocean's carbon storage.»

According to the researchers, oceans are a central component in the global carbon cycle through their storage, transport and transformations of carbon constituents.

Rivers transport 200 million tons of carbon to the oceans every year, according to new research that calculates the role of rivers in carbon storage.

Future assessments of carbon storage must now take into account the surface areas of the land - ocean aquatic continuum to ensure accurate estimation of carbon storage.

These results provide new insights into the role that the deep ocean plays as a storage reservoir for carbon, a process that helps to dampen the effects of human - driven climate change.

And finally, are these reactions able to affect important ocean services such as carbon storage or food supply?

One explanation (ix) conceived in the 1980s invokes more stratification, less upwelling of carbon and nutrient - rich waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean and increased carbon storage at depth during glacial times.

The potential of coastal ocean alkalinization (COA), a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) climate engineering strategy that chemically increases ocean carbon uptake and storage, is investigated with an Earth system model of intermediate complexity.

Deep ocean heat and carbon storage are dependent on heat transfers driven by mesoscale eddy mixing.

Plus how that will reduce ocean storage of carbon, meaning our emissions hit us faster and harder.

Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).

These include «reforestation, afforestation, carbon - friendly agriculture, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCs), enhanced weathering, ocean fertilisation, or direct air capture and carbon storage (DACCs),» the report adds.

«If the shell - making is reduced, the storage of carbon in the ocean might be, as well.»

At the beginning of MIS 16, CO2 remains below 180 p.p.m.v. for 3 kyr, most probably reflecting more pronounced glacial carbon storage in the ocean.

This technical document speaks of the ocean's storage of heat and carbon and its connection with the rate and degree of changes in climate and in the Earth climate system.

A much weaker variability occurs in carbon storage of the surface ocean.

Treating our ocean as an empty platform waiting for development ignores the vital role of oceans in carbon storage, tourism, recreation, and scenery.

The twilight zone plays a prominent role in transferring the atmosphere's excess carbon dioxide (from fossil fuel burning) into deep ocean storage.

Physically, C1 can be thought of as representing the concentration of CO2 in long - term stores such as the deep ocean; C1 + C2 as representing the CO2 concentration in medium - term stores such as the thermocline and the long - term soil - carbon storage; and C = C1 + C2 + C3 as the concentration of CO2 in those sinks that are also in equilibrium with the atmosphere on time scales of a year or less, including the mixed layer, the atmosphere itself and rapid - response biospheric stores.

While the historical performance of ocean models can be benchmarked against global inventories of ocean carbon, only recently have equivalently robust global estimates been developed for some components of land carbon storage (Saatchi et al 2011) and soils, the largest reservoir, remains very sparsely sampled.

Broader economic approaches, however, can attach monetary values to non-market impacts, referred to as externalities, placing an economic value on ecosystem services like breathable air, carbon capture and storage (in forests and oceans) and usable water.

-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration — Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?

Synthesis products developed to date: SOCAT, CARINA, PACIFICA and GLODAPv2 have dramatically increased our understanding of several critical phenomena including air - sea fluxes of carbon, ocean interior carbon storage, ocean acidification, net community and export production, and interior ocean circulation which allowed us to take the relevant actions listed above.

If exposure to a more acidic pH caused a decline in some sea urchin populations, how might this affect the storage of carbon in ocean sediments?

Negative emissions can refer to carbon capture and storage technology powered by biomass, geo - engineering of the atmosphere and oceans, or CO2 removal that sucks emissions out of the air.

The Planet Remade covers all the main proposed geoengineering techniques --(not just SAI, but also ocean iron fertilization (OIF), marine cloud brightening (MCB), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC)-RRB-, outlining their history, the current state of knowledge, and expected risks and benefits (and impressively, without descending into the alphabet soup of all these acronyms).

Secondly, the freshening of Antarctic surface water induces a slowdown of the lower overturning circulation, leading to an increase of the biological carbon storage in the Southern Ocean.

The net effect of these processes taken together is a sustained growth of the carbon storage in the Southern Ocean, notwithstanding a weaker global ocean carbon uptake predicted by all models in a warming cliOcean, notwithstanding a weaker global ocean carbon uptake predicted by all models in a warming cliocean carbon uptake predicted by all models in a warming climate.

For over 40 years, TCPs have brought together experts from the public and private sectors to share experiences in fields as diverse as ocean energy, smart grids, carbon capture and storage and hybrid and electric vehicles.

A decline of open - ocean convection would reduce the production rate of Antarctic Bottom Waters, with important implications for ocean heat and carbon storage, and may have played a role in recent Antarctic climate change.»

That outlines the chemistry that links most of the storage of inorganic carbon in the ocean to the amount of base cations (Ca, Mg,) in ocean water.

The oceans are a major carbon storage system for carbon dioxide.

The deep ocean is a critical storage area for carbon, keeping it from re-entering the atmosphere as the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.