A studied team led by Christopher L. Sabine of the National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reports in the journal science that the missing gas is dissolved in the ocean. "The ocean has removed 48 percent of the co: we have released to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and cement manufacturing. sabine said after reviewing data gathered between 1989 and 1998 from three major studies of the Atlantic Pacific, and Indian oceans. The studies collected more than 72,000 ocean samples.