TY - BOOK ID - 12900649 TI - The ocean carbon cycle and climate : proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study on ..., Ankara, Turkey, 5-16 August 2002 AU - Follows, Mick AU - Oguz, Temel AU - NATO Advanced Study Institutes AU - Kluwer Academic Publishers AU - NATO PY - 2004 VL - v. 40 SN - 1402020864 1402020856 1402020872 PB - Dordrecht ; Boston ; London Brussels Kluwer Academic Publishers NATO Scientific Affairs Division DB - UniCat KW - Chemical oceanography KW - Océanographie chimique KW - Océanographie chimique KW - Cycle du carbone (Biogéochimie) KW - Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) KW - Climatic changes KW - Climat KW - Congresses KW - Congresses. KW - Congrès KW - Changements KW - Oceanography. KW - Atmospheric sciences. KW - Atmospheric Sciences. KW - Atmospheric sciences KW - Earth sciences KW - Atmosphere KW - Oceanography, Physical KW - Oceanology KW - Physical oceanography KW - Thalassography KW - Marine sciences KW - Ocean UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:12900649 AB - Our desire to understand the global carbon cycle and its link to the climate system represents a huge challenge. These overarching questions have driven a great deal of scientific endeavour in recent years: What are the basic oceanic mechanisms which control the oceanic carbon reservoirs and the partitioning of carbon between ocean and atmosphere? How do these mechanisms depend on the state of the climate system and how does the carbon cycle feed back on climate? What is the current rate at which fossil fuel carbon dioxide is absorbed by the oceans and how might this change in the future? To begin to answer these questions we must first understand the distribution of carbon in the ocean, its partitioning between different ocean reservoirs (the "solubility" and "biological" pumps of carbon), the mechanisms controlling these reservoirs, and the relationship of the significant physical and biological processes to the physical environment. The recent surveys from the JGOFS and WOCE (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study and World Ocean Circulation Ex­ periment) programs have given us a first truly global survey of the physical and biogeochemical properties of the ocean. These new, high quality data provide the opportunity to better quantify the present oceans reservoirs of carbon and the changes due to fossil fuel burning. In addition, diverse process studies and time-series observations have clearly revealed the complexity of interactions between nutrient cycles, ecosystems, the carbon-cycle and the physical envi­ ronment. ER -