Rainfall on the ocean’s surface is responsible for around 6% of the ocean’s uptake of carbon dioxide. Credit: Miguel Alcantara. The ocean plays an important role in the global carbon cycle by absorbing about one-quarter of the carbon emitted by human activities every year. A study published recently in Nature Geoscience and co-authored by a University of […]
Just one small correction, which is in the article but somehow is wrong in the title.
Rainfall increases the ocean’s uptake of carbon by 6%, and the ocean accounts for one quarter of global uptake. So the amount we’re talking about here is 1.5% and doesn’t include the amount rainfall contributes to uptake of carbon on land unless we just chalk all rainfall up to oceanic uptake.
Just one small correction, which is in the article but somehow is wrong in the title.
Rainfall increases the ocean’s uptake of carbon by 6%, and the ocean accounts for one quarter of global uptake. So the amount we’re talking about here is 1.5% and doesn’t include the amount rainfall contributes to uptake of carbon on land unless we just chalk all rainfall up to oceanic uptake.
Great you mentioned this, so I just edited the title so the point is clear.