OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY The Role of the Ocean Carbon Cycle in Global Change

Collection Location Balai Riset dan Observasi Laut Jembrana
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Call Number 551.464.5 FAS o
ISBN/ISSN 3540423982
Author(s) Fasham, Michael J.R
Subject(s) Carbon Cycle
Chemical Oceanography
Classification 551.464.5
Series Title International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
GMD Text
Language English
Publisher Springer
Publishing Year 2003
Publishing Place Berlin
Collation xviii, 297p.:27 cm+ill.,index
Abstract/Notes Oceans account for 50% of the anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere. During the past 15 years an international programme, the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), has been studying the ocean carbon cycle to quantify and model the biological and physical processes, whereby Co2 is pumped from the ocean's surface to the depths of the ocean, where it can remain fo hundreds of years. This projects is one of the largest multi-diciplinary studies of the oceans ever carried out and this book synthesises the results. It covers all aspects of the topic ranging from air-sea exchange with CO2 the role of physical mixing, the uptake of CO2 by marine algae, the fluxes of carbon and nitrogen through the marine food chain to the subsequent export of carbon to the depths of the ocean. Special emphasis is laid on predicting future climatic change
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