The Gulf of Alaska coastal ocean as an atmospheric CO2 sink

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 65, Issue , 2013, Pages 52-63

  Evans, Wiley ^a,b   Mathis, Jeremy T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal processes; Gulf of Alaska; Sea air CO2 fluxes

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COASTAL WATER; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA SET; PARTIAL PRESSURE; WIND VELOCITY;

GULF OF ALASKA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84880148075     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.06.013     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. 2 Atlas (SOCAT). Earth System Science Data 2013, 5:125-143. 10.5194/essd-5195-5125-2013.
2. Boyd P.W., Law C.S., Wong C.S., Nojiri Y., Tsuda A., Levasseur M., Takeda S., Rivkin R., Harrison P.J., Strzepek R., Gower J., McKay R.M., Abraham E., Arychuk M., Barwell-Clarke J., Crawford W., Crawford D., Hale M., Harada K., Johnson K., Kiyosawa H., Kudo I., Marchetti A., Miller W., Needoba J., Nishioka J., Ogawa H., Page J., Robert M., Saito H., Sastri A., Sherry N., Soutar T., Sutherland N., Taira Y., Whitney F., Wong S.-K.E., Yoshimura T. The decline and fate of an iron-induced subarctic phytoplankton bloom. Nature 2004, 428:549-553.
3. Buck A.L. New equations for computing vapor pressure and enhancement factor. Journal of Applied Meteorology 1981, 20:1527-1532.
4. Chavez F.P., Takahashi T., Cai W.-J., Friederich G.E., Hales B., Wanninkhof R., Feely R.A. Coastal oceans. The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR): The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle 2007, 157-166. U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Washington, DC. A.W. King, L. Dilling, G.P. Zimmerman, D.M. Fairman, R.A. Houghton, G. Marland, A.Z. Rose, T.J. Wilbanks (Eds.).
5. Childers A.R., Whitledge T., Stockwell D.A. Seasonal and interannual variability in the distribution of nutrients and chlorophyll a across the Gulf of Alaska shelf: 1998-2000. Deep-Sea Research II 2005, 52:193-216.
6. Conway, T.J., Masarie, K.A., Lang, P.M., Tans, P.P., 2012. NOAA Greenhouse Gas Reference from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Dry Air Mole Fractions from the NOAA ESRL Carbon Cycle Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network Path: NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division. http://ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/flask/.
7. Coyle K.O., Cheng W., Hinckley S.L., Lessard E.J., Whitledge T., Hermann A.J., Hedstrom K. Model and field observations of effects of circulation on the timing and magnitude of nitrate utilization and production on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf. Progress in Oceanography 2012, 103:16-41. 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.1003.1002.
8. Crawford W.R., Brickley P., Thomas A.C. Mesoscale eddies dominate surface phytoplankton in northern Gulf of Alaska. Progress in Oceanography 2007, 75:287-303.
9. Cullen J., Chong M., Ianson D. British Columbian continental shelf as a source of dissolved iron to the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2009, 23. 10.1029/2008GB003326.
10. Dai A., Qian T., Trenberth K.E., Milliman J.D. Changes in continental freshwater discharge from 1948-2004. Journal of Climate 2009, 22:2773-2792. 10.1175/2008JCLI2592.1171.
11. Dai A., Trenberth K.E. Estimates of freshwater discharge from continents: latitudinal and seasonal variations. Journal of Hydrometeorology 2002, 3:660-687.
12. 2 flux variability on the northeast Pacific continental margin 2011, 177 pp. College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
13. 2 on the Oregon shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research 2011, 116. 10.1029/2010JC006625.
14. Evans W., Hales B., Strutton P.G. pCO2 distributions and air-water CO2 fluxes in the Columbia River estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 2013, 117:260-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2012.12.003.
15. 2 fluxes in the western Canadian coastal ocean. Progress in Oceanography 2012, 101:78-91. 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.1001.1003.
16. Foreman M.G.G., Pal B., Merryfield W.J. Trends in upwelling and downwelling winds along the British Columbia shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research 2011, 116. 10.1029/2011JC006995.
17. Freeland H.J. What proportion of the North Pacific Current finds its way into the Gulf of Alaska?. Atmosphere-Ocean 2006, 44:321-330.
18. 2 from a moored buoy. Deep-Sea Research I 1995, 42:1175-1186.
19. Hales B., Cai W.-J., Mitchell B.G., Sabine C.L., Schofield O. North American Continental Margins: A Synthesis and Planning Workshop 2008, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, Washington, D.C.
20. Hales B., Chipman D., Takahashi T. High-frequency measurements of partial pressure and total concentration of carbon dioxide in seawater using microporous hydrophobic membrane contactors. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 2004, 2:356-364.
21. 2 in coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific. Progress in Oceanography 2012, 1-15.
22. 2 uptake by a coastal upwelling system. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2005, 19:GB1009. doi: 1010.1029/2004GB002295.
23. 6 during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research 2011, 116. 10.1029/2010JC006854.
24. 2 fluxes on the U.S. South Atlantic Bight: spatial and seasonal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research 2008, 113:C07019. doi: 07010.01029/02007JC004366.
25. Ladd C., Stabeno P.J., Cokelet E.D. A note on cross-shelf exchange in the northern Gulf of Alaska. Deep-Sea Research II 2005, 52:667-679.
26. Liu K.-K., Atkinson L., Quiñones R.A., Talaue-McManus L. Biogeochemistry of continental margins in a global context. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins 2010, 3-24. Springer, Stockholm. K.-K. Liu, L. Atkinson, R.A. Quiñones, L. Talaue-McManus (Eds.).
27. Overland J.E., Adams J.M., Bond N.A. Decadel variability of the Aleutian low and its relation to high-latitude circulation. Journal of Climate 1999, 12:1542-1548.
28. 2 sink in the western tropical North Atlantic from 2002 to 2009. Journal of Geophyiscal Research 2012, 117. 10.1029/2011JC007803.
29. Pennington J.T., Friederich G.E., Castro C.G., Collins C.A., Evans W., Chavez F.P. The Northern and Central California coastal upwelling system. Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins 2010, Springer, Berlin. K.-K. Liu, L. Atkinson, R.A. Quiñones, L. Talaue-McManus (Eds.).
30. 2 measureing systems and data-reduction routines. Deep-Sea Research II 2009, 56:512-522.
31. Risien C.M., Chelton D.B. A global climatology of surface wind and wind stress fields from eight years of QuikSCAT Scatterometer Data. Journal of Physical Oceanography 2008, 38:2379-2413.
32. Royer T.C. Coastal fresh water discharge in the Northeast Pacific. Journal of Geophyiscal Research 1982, 87:2017-2021.
33. Royer T.C. Hydrographic responses at a coastal site in the northern Gulf of Alaska to seasonal and interannual forcing. Deep-Sea Research II 2005, 52:267-288.
34. 2 fluxes using bottle carbon data. Geophysical Research Letters 2013, 40. 10.1002/grl.50342.
35. Stabeno P.J., Bond N.A., Hermann A.J., Kachel N.B., Mordy C.W., Overland J.E. Meteorology and oceanography of the Northern Gulf of Alaska. Continental Shelf Research 2004, 24:859-897.
36. Strom S.L., Macri E.L., Fredrickson K.A. Light limitation of summer primary production in the coastal Gulf of Alaska: physiological and environmental casuses. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2010, 402:45-57.
37. Strom S.L., Olson M.B., Macri E.L., Mordy C.W. Cross-shelf gradients in phytoplankton community structure, nutrient utilization, and growth rate in the coastal Gulf of Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2006, 328:75-92.
38. 2 and nutrients in the high-latitude surface oceans: a comparative study. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 1993, 7:843-878. doi: 810.1029/1093GB02263.
39. 2 database: measurements preformed during 1957-2009 (Version 2009), ORNL/CDIAC-152, NDP-088 (V2009) 2010, Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
40. 2, and seasonal biological and temperature effects. Deep-Sea Research II 2002, 49:1601-1622.
41. 2 flux over the global oceans. Deep-Sea Research II 2009, 56:554-577.
42. 2 distribution in the North Atlantic using a self-organizing neural network. Biogeosciences 2009, 6:1405-1421.
43. 2 from shelf sea pumping. Science 2004, 304:1005-1008.
44. 2?. Tellus 1999, 51B:701-712.
45. Wanninkhof R. Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research 1992, 97:7373-7382.
46. 2 fluxes. Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces 2002, 351-356. AGU, Washington, DC. M.A. Donelan, W.M. Drennan, E.S. Saltzman, R. Wanninkhof (Eds.).
47. 2 fluxes. Gas Transfer At Water Surfaces 2010 2011, 431-444. Kyoto University Press, Kyoto. S. Komori, W.R. McGillis, R. Kurose (Eds.).
48. Wanninkhof R., Sullivan K.F., Top Z. Air-sea gas transfer in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research 2004, 109. 10.1029/2003JC001767.
49. Weingartner T. The physical environment of the Gulf of Alaska. Long-term Ecological Change in the Northern Gulf of Alaska 2007, 589. Elsevier, Oxford. R.B. Spies (Ed.).
50. Weingartner T.J., Coyle K., Finney B., Hopcroft R., Whitledge T., Brodeur R., Dagg M., Farley E., Haidvogal D., Haldorson L., Hermann A., Hinckley S., Napp J., Stabeno P.J., Kline T., Lee C., Lessard E.J., Royer T.C., Strom S. The Northeast Pacific GLOBEC Program: coastal Gulf of Alaska. Oceanography 2002, 15:48-63.
51. Weingartner T.J., Danielson S.L., Royer T.C. Freshwater variability and predictability in the Alaska Coastal Current. Deep-Sea Research II 2005, 52:169-191.
52. Weingartner T.J., Eisner L., Eckert G.L., Danielson S.L. Southeast Alaska: oceanographic habitats and linkages. Journal of Biogeography 2009, 36:387-400.
53. Weiss R.F. Carbon dioxide in water and seawater: the solubility of a non-ideal gas. Marine Chemistry 1974, 2:203-215.
54. Whitney F.A., Crawford W.R., Harrison P.J. Physical processes that enhance nutrient transport and primary productivity in the coastal and open ocean of the subartic NE Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II 2005, 52:681-706.
55. Wong C.S., Christian J.R., Wong S.-K.E., Page J., Xie L., Johannessen S. Carbon dioxide in surface seawater of the eastern North Pacific Ocean (Line P), 1973-2005. Deep-Sea Research I 2010, 57:687-695.