Biological Oceanography

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Plate 16.1 World map of ocean CO 2 influx (negative, cold colors) and efflux


(positive, warm colors) calculated from ∼3 million surface pCO 2 values from 1980–


2000 projected forward with geographically distributed trends to represent the year
2000.


(^) (Figure based on a recalculation of December 2010 from the worldwide web with permission of T. Takahashi;
methods in Takahashi et al. 2009.)
Plate 16.2 Air–sea CO 2 fluxes for 10 regions (positive: out of the ocean).
Approximate standard deviations (“uncertainties”) are shown by vertical whiskers. (a)

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