The Ocean Carbon Cycle in the Western Arctic Ocean: Distributions and Air-Sea Fluxes of Carbon Dioxide

The Arctic Ocean is a potentially important sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) with a recent estimate suggesting that the region contributes from 5 to 14% of the global ocean's net uptake of CO2. In the western Arctic Ocean, the focus of this paper, the Chukchi Sea is a strong ocean sink...

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Main Authors: Nicholas R. Bates, Wei-Jun Cai, Jeremy T. Mathis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2011-09-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
IPY
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/24-3_bates.pdf