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Measurements were taken from on board the royal research ship Discovery as it travelled through the North Atlantic Ocean. Daniel Ford

How we discovered that the ocean’s surface absorbs much more CO₂ than previously thought

Daniel Ford, University of Exeter; Ian Ashton, University of Exeter, and Jamie Shutler, University of Exeter

A thin layer at the ocean surface called the “ocean skin” increases CO₂ uptake by about 7%. That’s equivalent to the CO₂ absorbed by the entire Amazon rainforest each year.

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