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Constraining ocean transport

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Accounting for the oceanic transport of carbon suggests that existing estimates of the location and magnitude of the land carbon sinks need to be revised.

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Fig. 1: Riverine carbon sources.

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  1. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia

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  2. Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research, Hobart, Australia

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  3. Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, Hobart, Australia

    Andrew Lenton

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Lenton, A. Constraining ocean transport. Nature Geosci 11, 461–462 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0165-x

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