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Earth Environ. 4(2)</i>: 119-134. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00381-x\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00381-x</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":1,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Gruber, N.; Bakker, D.C.E.; DeVries, T.; Gregor, L.; Hauck, J.; Landschützer, P.; McKinley, G.A.; Müller, J.D.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Gruber, N. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"The ocean has absorbed 25 ± 2% of the total anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from the early 1960s to the late 2010s, with rates more than tripling over this period and with a mean uptake of –2.7 ± 0.3 Pg C year<sup>–1</sup> for the period 1990 through 2019. This growth of the ocean sink matches expectations based on the increase in atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub>, but research has shown that the sink is more variable than long assumed. 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