Minhan Dai, Ya-Wei Luo, Hongyang Lin, Eric P. Achterberg, Thomas J. Browning, Matthew J. Church, Zhongping Lee, Wei-Lei Wang, Author at Eos

Illustration of vertical nutrient and organic carbon profiles.

Ocean Deserts Could Help Capture CO₂ and Mitigate Global Warming

by Minhan Dai, Ya-Wei Luo, Hongyang Lin, Eric P. Achterberg, Thomas J. Browning, Matthew J. Church, Zhongping Lee and Wei-Lei Wang 1 December 20234 December 2023

Various nutrient sources in the upper waters of oceanic subtropical gyres, which are the Earth’s largest oligotrophic ecosystems, play a crucial role in governing the sequestration of atmospheric CO₂.

Ya-Wei Luo

Ocean Deserts Could Help Capture CO₂ and Mitigate Global Warming

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