Seasonal variability of net sea-air CO2 fluxes in a coastal region of the northern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Monteiro, Thiago, Kerr, Rodrigo, Machado, Eunice da Costa
• Other Authors: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology of Cryosphere, FAPERGS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71814-0; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71814-0.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71814-0

Abstract We show an annual overview of the sea-air CO 2 exchanges and primary drivers in the Gerlache Strait, a hotspot for climate change that is ecologically important in the northern Antarctic Peninsula. In autumn and winter, episodic upwelling events increase the remineralized carbon in the sea...