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Reference : The Carbon budget of the North Sea


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Life sciences : Aquatic sciences & oceanology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/1641

Title :	The Carbon budget of the North Sea
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Thomas, H. [Université de Liège - ULg > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique >]
	Bozec, Y. [> > > >]
	de Baar, Hein J. W. [> > > >]
	Elkalay, K. [> > > >]
	Frankignoulle, M. [> > > >]
	Schiettecatte, L. S. [> > > >]
	Borges, Alberto [> > > >]
Publication date :	2005
Journal title :	Biogeosciences
Publisher :	European Geosciences Union
Volume :	2
Issue/season :	1
Pages :	87-96
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBi)
Audience :	International
ISSN :	1726-4170
City :	Katlenburg-Lindau
Country :	Germany
Abstract :	[en] 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.
Target :	Researchers
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/1641

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