Sentences with phrase «ocean reservoirs back»
Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.
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They will be mixed back into the huge reservoir of the deep ocean, or even absorbed into the lithosphere at the deep ocean rifts.
In looking at this of course, we must take into account that overall the thermal inertia and overall energy storage capacity of the troposphere is dwarfed by the oceans and far more variable than the oceans, so looking at the energy of the troposphere and comparing it to Earth's overall reservoir of non-tectonic energy is much like weighing the flee on a dog's back to see how much it adds to the weight of the dog.
The current total of 300 GtC human emissions adds less than 1 % to the carbon reservoir in the deep oceans, and ultimately that is all what returns if everything is back in equilibrium.