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Of the pools in the terrestrial carbon cycle sharing appreciable flows of carbon, the ocean pool is by far the largest (Fig.1). It contains an amount of dissolved carbon more than fifty times that present in the atmosphere as CO2. The next largest pool is that of economically available fossil carbon, which is probably five times and perhaps as much as ten times the present atmospheric content (Rotty and Narland, 1980). Next in order of decreasing size is the carbon stored on land in live and dead plants and as soil humus, totalling an amount roughly three times the present atmospheric content (Emanuel et al., 1981).
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Baes, C.F. (1983). The Role of the Oceans in the Carbon Cycle. In: Bach, W., Crane, A.J., Berger, A.L., Longhetto, A. (eds) Carbon Dioxide. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6998-8_2
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