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Details for article 99 of 114 found articles
| Title: |
The carbon budget of the North Sea |
| Author: |
H. Thomas Y. Bozec H. J. W. de Baar K. Elkalay M. Frankignoulle L.-S. Schiettecatte G. Kattner A. V. Borges |
| Appeared in: |
Biogeosciences |
| Paging: | Volume 2 (2005) nr. 1 pages 87-96 |
| Year: |
2005 |
| Contents: |
A carbon budget has been established for the North Sea, a shelf sea on the NW European continental shelf. The carbon exchange fluxes with the North Atlantic Ocean dominate the gross carbon budget. The net carbon budget – more relevant to the issue of the contribution of the coastal ocean to the marine carbon cycle – is dominated by the carbon inputs from rivers, the Baltic Sea and the atmosphere. The North Sea acts as a sink for organic carbon and thus can be characterised as a heterotrophic system. The dominant carbon sink is the final export to the North Atlantic Ocean. More than 90% of the CO2 taken up from the atmosphere is exported to the North Atlantic Ocean making the North Sea a highly efficient continental shelf pump for carbon. |
| Publisher: |
Copernicus GmbH on behalf of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) (provided by DOAJ) |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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