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Article: A Climate Model Featuring Ocean-Atmosphere Exchange of Carbon Dioxide.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Bulletin of the South Carolina Academy of Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Were it not for the significant uptake of carbon dioxide by the ocean, the large amounts of carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere would cause a much more rapid rise in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide (and thus faster global warming) than we currently have. This talk describes a climate model which follows in some detail the exchange of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the ocean. Whereas the other greenhouse gases are treated by supplying as input assumed future concentrations of these gases, carbon dioxide is treated by taking as input an assumed future ...