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Carbon streams into the deep Arctic Ocean

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Widespread injection of deep water from the Barents Sea into the Nansen Basin makes a substantial contribution to carbon sequestration in the Arctic Ocean, and feeds the deep sea community.

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Fig. 1: Phytoplankton bloom in the surface waters of the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

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Manizza, M. Carbon streams into the deep Arctic Ocean. Nat. Geosci. 16, 6–7 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01102-1

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