Document of bibliographic reference 320648
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- Winter weather controls net influx of atmospheric CO2 on the north-west European shelf
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- Shelf seas play an important role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and exporting carbon (C) to the open ocean and sediments. The magnitude of these processes is poorly constrained, because observations are typically interpolated over multiple years. Here, we used 298500 observations of CO2 fugacity (fCO2) from a single year (2015), to estimate the net influx of atmospheric CO2 as 26.2 ± 4.7 Tg C yr−1 over the open NW European shelf. CO2 influx from the atmosphere was dominated by influx during winter as a consequence of high winds, despite a smaller, thermally-driven, air-sea fCO2 gradient compared to the larger, biologically-driven summer gradient. In order to understand this climate regulation service, we constructed a carbon-budget supplemented by data from the literature, where the NW European shelf is treated as a box with carbon entering and leaving the box. This budget showed that net C-burial was a small sink of 1.3 ± 3.1 Tg C yr−1, while CO2 efflux from estuaries to the atmosphere, removed the majority of river C-inputs. In contrast, the input from the Baltic Sea likely contributes to net export via the continental shelf pump and advection (34.4 ± 6.0 Tg C yr−1).
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- https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000509340400032
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- Kitidis, V.; Shutler, J.D.; Ashton, I.; Warren, M.; Brown, I.; Findlay, H.; Hartman, S.E.; Sanders, R.; Humphreys, M.; Kivimäe, C.; Greenwood, N.; Hull, T.; Pearce, D.; McGrath, T.; Stewart, B.M.; Walsham, P.; McGovern, E.; Bozec, Y.; Gac, J.-P.; van Heuven, S.M.A.C.; Hoppema, M.; Schuster, U.; Johannessen, T.; Omar, A.; Lauvset, S.K.; Skjelvan, I.; Olsen, A.; Steinhoff, T.; Kortzinger, A.; Becker, M.; Lefèvre, N.; Diverrès, D.; Gkritzalis, T.; Cattrijsse, A.; Petersen, W.; Voynova, Y.G.; Chapron, B.; Grouazel, A.; Land, P.E.; Sharples, J.; Nightingale, P.D. (2019). Winter weather controls net influx of atmospheric CO2 on the north-west European shelf. NPG Scientific Reports 9(1): 20153. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56363-5
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- Marine
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- open access
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- Vassilis Kitidis
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- Jamie Shutler
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- Ian Ashton
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- Mark Warren
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- Ian Brown
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- Helen Findlay
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- Sue Hartman
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- Richard Sanders
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- Matthew Humphreys
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- Caroline Kivimäe
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- Naomi Greenwood
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- Tom Hull
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- David Pearce
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- Triona McGrath
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- Brian Stewart
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- Pamela Walsham
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- Evin McGovern
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- Yann Bozec
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- Jean-Philippe Gac
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- Steven van Heuven
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- Mario Hoppema
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- Ute Schuster
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- Truls Johannessen
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- Abdirahman Omar
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- Siv Lauvset
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- Ingunn Skjelvan
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- Are Olsen
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- Tobias Steinhoff
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- Arne Kortzinger
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- Meike Becker
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- Nathalie Lefèvre
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- Denis Diverrès
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- Thanos Gkritzalis
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- https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7897-4230
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- Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
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- André Cattrijsse
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- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0772-3087
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- Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
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- Wilhelm Petersen
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- Yoana Voynova
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- Bertrand Chapron
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- Antoine Grouazel
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- Peter Land
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- Jonathan Sharples
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- Philip Nightingale