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Constraining ocean transport

Nature Geoscience volume 11, pages 461–462 (2018)Cite this article

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Accounting for the oceanic transport of carbon suggests that existing estimates of the location and magnitude of the land carbon sinks need to be revised.

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Fig. 1: Riverine carbon sources.

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  2. Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, Hobart, Australia

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  3. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia

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