CARBON-DIOXIDE AND NITROUS-OXIDE IN THE NORTH INDIAN-OCEAN

The understanding of biogeochemical cycling of carbon dioxide and nitr ous oxide in the oceans is essential for predicting the fate of anthro pogenically emitted components, The North Indian Ocean, with its diver se regimes, provides us with a natural laboratory that can unravel the mechanisms controlling these gases with implications for the global a quatic bodies, In this review we discuss the anthropogenically impinge d global budgets for these gases, summarize our results, largely colle cted under the Global Change Programme from the North Indian Ocean and evaluate the contributions from this region to the global sea-to-air fluxes.