Dissolved inorganic carbon cycling in the offshore Amazon River plume and the western tropical North Atlantic ocean

• Main Author: Cooley, Sarah Rebecca
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2006
• Subjects: Ocean carbon cycle; CO2; atmospheric CO2 sink; Amazon River; Tropical; Atlantic Ocean; Burd; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/23337; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/cooley_sarah_r_200608_phd

The Amazon River discharges low-salinity, low-carbon water into the western tropical North Atlantic (WTNA), where the resultant plume stretches thousands of kilometers offshore and creates a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The presence of a carbon sink in tropical oceans is noteworthy bec...