Publication Date:
2004-05-15
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Thomas, Helmuth -- Bozec, Yann -- Elkalay, Khalid -- de Baar, Hein J W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 May 14;304(5673):1005-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department for Marine Chemistry and Geology, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Post Office Box 59, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, Netherlands. hthomas@nioz.nl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143279" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Atmosphere
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Carbon Dioxide/*analysis/metabolism
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*Food Chain
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North Sea
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Seasons
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*Seawater
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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