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A hump in ocean–air exchange

Semivolatile organic compounds from fossil fuels or incomplete combustion are ubiquitous. A suite of circumglobal measurements of their oceanic and atmospheric concentrations reveals large carbon fluxes through the deposition of these compounds.

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Figure 1: Sources of semivolatile aromatic-like compounds (SALCs).

JACK COOK, WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION

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Reddy, C. A hump in ocean–air exchange. Nature Geosci 9, 415–416 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2716

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