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

• Published in: Oceanography
• Main Authors: Bates, Nicholas R., Cai, Wei-Jun, Mathis, Jeremy
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Chukchi Sea; East Siberian Sea; Chukchi; Ocean acidification; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/357321/

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...