Terrestrial organic carbon dynamics in Arctic coastal areas : budgets and multiple stable isotope approaches

• Main Author: Alling, Vanja
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad miljövetenskap (ITM) 2010
• Subjects: organic carbon; DOC; POC; multiple stable isotopes; Laptev Sea; East Siberian Sea; Lena River; Arctic; residence times; degradation; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Arctic Ocean; laptev; lena river
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-43455

Arctic rivers transport 31-42 Tg organic carbon (OC) each year to the Arctic Ocean, which is equal to 10% of the global riverine OC discharge. Since the Arctic Ocean only holds approximately 1% of the global ocean volume, the influence of terrestrially derived organic carbon (OCter) in the Arctic Oc...