Sentences with phrase «deep ocean sequestration»

All in all, I don't see a very convincing case for deep ocean sequestration of heat.

Previously, you were unconvinced that there was deep ocean sequestration of heat to any degree.

Nor does residence time have anything to do with oceanographers» imaginary bottleneck in the boundary layer, where CO2 waits thousands of years for deep ocean sequestration to make room in the surface layer, constrained by equilibrium carbonate equations.

Not exact matches

Here, we report on advances made in methane hydrate research and deep - ocean Raman spectroscopy, and on proposals for fossil fuel CO2 sequestration and on controlled ocean acidification studies.

Eddies carry heat, carbon, and other biogeochemical tracers into the deep ocean, aiding carbon and heat sequestration.

My understanding of this process is that it mostly occurs near coastal upwellings which bring up nutrients from the deep and that it is responsible for a significant fraction of ocean carbon sequestration.

As researchers concluded in a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, ocean iron fertilization can only prove successful as a climate geoengineering approach if, in addition to phytoplankton bloom stimulation, «a proportion of the particulate organic carbon (POC) produced must sink down the water column and reach the main thermocline or deeper before being remineralized... and the third phase is long - term sequestration of the carbon at depth out of contact with the atmosphere.»

However, the key point here is that the observational data, including Curry's own reference, contradict her point by finding substantial deep ocean heat sequestration over the past decade.

Sequestration of organic carbon in the deep sea by stimulating spring phytoplankton production in high - latitude oceans;

Specifically, if the variability controlling the current hiatus is linked to longer - term sequestration of heat into the deep ocean, this might require us to recalibrate future projections.

The Atlantic initiated the heat sequestration toward the end of the 20th century below 700 m. Indian Ocean's deeper layers warmed last and with much smaller amplitude.

Injecting the carbon deep underground or deep into the ocean are the two main avenues being explored for large - scale, long - term sequestration.

But the bottom line is that there does not seem to be any observational support for this large sequestration of heat in the deep ocean that is shown by the reanalysis.

Also sequestration in the deep ocean doesn't require mixing.

So there could be some additional future warming due to sequestration of heat in the deep ocean.