The inferred ocean uptake pattern shows the sum of two components: the natural carbon cycle in which CO2 is outgassed in the tropics and taken up in the extratropics, and the perturbation uptake of anthropogenic CO2.
[8]-RRB-, it is inferred that as much as 7.5 % of global oceanic CO2 uptake may occur in the Arctic Ocean, which comprises only 3.9 % of the global ocean's surOcean, which comprises only 3.9 % of the global ocean's surocean's surface.