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Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping
Thomas, H.; Bozec, Y.; Elkalay, K.; de Baar, H.J.W. (2004). Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping. Science (Wash.) 304(5673): 1005-1008. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1095491
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, more
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Thomas, H.; Bozec, Y.; Elkalay, K.; de Baar, H.J.W. (2005). Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf sea pumping, in: Bozec, Y. Process studies of the biological pump of carbon dioxide in the North Sea and Southern Ocean. pp. 63-73, more
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    Marine/Coastal
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  • Thomas, H., more
  • Bozec, Y.
  • Elkalay, K.
  • de Baar, H.J.W.
Abstract
    Seasonal field observations show that the North Sea, a Northern European shelf sea, is highly efficient in pumping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the North Atlantic Ocean. The bottom topography–controlled stratification separates production and respiration processes in the North Sea, causing a carbon dioxide increase in the subsurface layer that is ultimately exported to the North Atlantic Ocean. Globally extrapolated, the net uptake of carbon dioxide by coastal and marginal seas is about 20% of the world ocean's uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide, thus enhancing substantially the open ocean carbon dioxide storage.
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