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Only about half of all the CO2 that has been produced by the burning of fossil fuels now remains in the atmosphere. The CO2 missing from the atmosphere is the subject of an important debate. One of the great possibility of the missing CO2 is to know the pool and turn-over time of oceanic organic carbon, especially dissolved organic carbon in the carbon cycle. Measurement of dissolved organic carbon in seawater has been much argued for a long time. An essential discussion is described in relation to the understanding “Nature”.
