By Steven Knotter, Rob de Lobel, Lena Tsipouri, Vanja Stenius

This quantity emerged from a collaborative community of Excellence undertaking funded by way of the eu fee. The community, which includes thirty-two institutes from Europe and past, integrates eu learn functions throughout disciplines and nations to supply the society and the country with instruments for coping with cultural variety as a key section of sustainable improvement. The paintings offered the following describes the emergence and extending value of variety inside of educational learn and perform and gives priceless insights on variety administration and coverage implementation.

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At higher latitudes, these concentrations increase toward the deep-water values. Under nutrient-limiting conditions, the concentration of organic carbon in the surface waters is expected to be Bmall and proportional to the upwelling flow F. Under light-limiting 51 THE ROLE OF THE OCEANS IN THE CARBON CYCLE Table V Limiting conditions of the model a Photosynthesis Rate Nutr. Conc. Nutrient-limited (G» F) Light limited (G« F) Zero a See (N ) s N G . -r F n N N Org. Carbon Conc. ) G 1 F 0 •N 0 Table IV and Eqs.

Kenya (Schnell, 1980) that, in spite of the considerable daily and seasonal fluctuations at stations influenced by CO 2 exchange between the atmosphere and the vegetation cover, it is possible to establish, through the application of statistical treatments, reasonable long-term trend values which are quite similar to the ones obtained from stations situated in ideal baseline conditions. This does not exclude the possiblity that local influences could, in many cases, have a strong impact on the development of the long-term averages of CO 2 from stations in continental locations.

OC. , 4(0, _0 ·2 ............... ........ ,. (~ I ,... C... 'H 10 60 40 -..... .. · 11 - ,. -... -/--4 " It 0 La tl tucit 2. -700 .. ,_ .... 900 .. I. 40 60 10 'S Figure 11 The difference (~ CO 2 parts per 10 6 by volume) between the annual mean CO concentration observed at various locations aroun~ the globe and at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, plotted as a function of latitude. The numbers adjacent to each data point indicate the time period of the respective data sets. difference difference difference difference difference difference difference difference between between between between between between between between GMCC-IRGA and SIO-IRGA (Mauna Loa); GMCC-IRGA and GMCC-IRGA (Mauna Loa); SIO-IRGA/flasks and SIO-IRGA (Mauna-Loa); CSIPO-IRGA and SIO-IRGA (Mauna-Loa); CSIRO-IRGA and SIO-IRGA (Mauna-Loa); CSIRO flasks and GMCC-IRGA (Mauna-Loa); CSIRO flasks and SIO-IRGA (Mauna-Loa); GMCC flasks and GMCC flasks (Mauna Loa); Solid Lines are model simulations at the indicated altitudes for 1979.

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