Carbon Storage (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Carbon Storage

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Green bars use the previous assumption of a constant transfer rate to show roughly equal amounts of carbon storage at the low and high latitudes. The yellow bars, which use the new variable transfer rate, show that the polar high-latitude oceans move significantly more carbon to long-term storage.

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Thomas Weber/University of Washington

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