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The Effects Of Buffer And Temperature Feedback On The Oceanic Uptake Of Co2, Chuixiang Yi, Peng Gong, Ming Xu, Ye Qi

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The feedback between climate and carbon cycle systems is critical to the prediction of future CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere and the capacity of the oceans to take up CO₂ from the atmosphere. We calculated the magnitudes of the potential feedback between the increase of atmospheric CO₂ concentration, the carbonate chemistry of the oceans (via a buffer factor), and the global temperature. We find that the magnitude of the buffer feedback depends strongly on the level of the dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the oceans and increases rapidly with the increase of the atmospheric CO …