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Enhanced Open Ocean Storage of CO 2 from Shelf Sea Pumping

Year: 2004

Type: article

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.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.1095491

Authors: Helmuth Thomas, Yann Bozec, Khalid Elkalay, Hein J. W. de Baar

Institution: Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

Language: English

Topic: Marine Plankton and Biogeochemistry

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Life below water

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1996147852

FWCI: 15.42

Cites: 20

Cited by: 540

Related to: 10