Understanding the Ocean’s Role in Climate
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• it stores and releases large quantities of heat, freshwater and soluble gases, • heat, freshwater and gas releases are sometimes substantially separated in space and time from their point of storage, due to ocean dynamics and mixing • freshwater and gas fluxes are determined partly by direct and indirect effects of ocean surface temperatures • carbon fluxes, storage and natural sequestration depend on highly complex biogeochemistry and marine ecosystems dynamics
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