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The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration [1]

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Global climate and the atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2atm ) are correlated over recent glacial cycles, with lower pCO2atm during ice ages, but the causes of the pCO2atm changes are unknown. The modern Southern Ocean releases deeply sequestered CO2 to the atmosphere.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Daniel M. Sigman [2], Mathis P. Hain [3], Gerald H. Haug [4]
Nature [5]
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Oceans and Seas [6], Carbon Dioxide [7], Climate Change [8], Climate Science [9], Carbon Sequestration [10], Antarctica [11]
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