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The European Continental Shelf as a Significant sink for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Frankignoulle, Michel; Borges, Alberto
2001In Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15 (3), p. 569-576
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Abstract :
[en] The concentration of carbon dioxide was measured during 18 cruises in the surface waters of the North Atlantic European Shelf (Galician sea, Gulf of Biscay, Armorican Sea, Celtic Sea, English Channel, North Sea), covering all four seasons (9 months of 12) at interannual scale. This is the very first intensive field study of continental shelves, in terms of source/sink for atmospheric CO2, which allows to integrate fluxes on an annual basis and over a large surface area. Here we show that European continental shelves are a sink of 90 to 170 million tons of carbon per year, that is an additional appreciable fraction to the presently proposed flux for the open North Atlantic Ocean (about 45%). The air-sea fluxes of CO2 we obtained are similar to those recently reported in the East China Sea, allowing us to conclude that the coastal ocean plays a considerable role in the global oceanic carbon cycle.
Disciplines :
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Author, co-author :
Frankignoulle, Michel
Borges, Alberto  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Language :
English
Title :
The European Continental Shelf as a Significant sink for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Publication date :
2001
Journal title :
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
ISSN :
0886-6236
eISSN :
1944-9224
Publisher :
American Geophysical Union, Washington, United States - District of Columbia
Volume :
15
Issue :
3
Pages :
569-576
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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