biological pump meaning
ENWBiological pump
- The biological pump, in its simplest form, is the ocean’s biologically driven sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere to the deep sea.
- NounPLbiological pumpsPREbio-
- (earth science) The collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.
- Thus, changes in the magnitude of the ocean's biological pump may have had a large influence on the fCO2 of the atmosphere in the past and could also be important in controlling future fCO2.
- (earth science) The collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.
Definition of biological pump in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "biological pump" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.