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

• Main Authors: Nicholas R. Bates, Wei-Jun Cai, Jeremy T. Mathis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Oceanography Society 2011
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; International Polar Year; IPY; carbon dioxide in the ocean; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; East Siberian Sea; Chukchi; Ocean acidification; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/a50710a324494d4a9df621c007e62cc5

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...