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Published on: 10/12/2008
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It's as if one was trying to find out how much debris came off a dirt road by relying entirely on cans placed along the side of the road, explains biological oceanographer William Hamner of the University of California at Los Angeles.
You'd get dust and dirt in the cans "but if you wanted to find out how many bags of trash were thrown out of windows, you wouldn't see any," Hamner said.
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"I think it's hugely important piece of work they have done," said Hamner.
For some time marine scientists and even climate modelers have been trying to discover whether the missing deep sea carbon was the fault of sampling or their calculations.
"The calculations were correct," Hamner concluded."A (carbon) source was missing."
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