A comparison of CO2 dynamics and air-water fluxes in a river-dominated estuary and a mangrove-dominated marine estuary

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 11,726-11,735

  Akhand, Anirban ^a,b   Chanda, Abhra ^a   Manna, Sudip ^a   Das, Sourav ^a   Hazra, Sugata ^a   Roy, Rajdeep ^c   Choudhury, S B ^c   Rao, K H ^c   Dadhwal, V K ^c   Chakraborty, Kunal ^d   Mostofa, K M G ^e   Tokoro, T ^b   Kuwae, Tomohiro ^b   Wanninkhof, Rik ^f  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b PORT AND AIRPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c National Remote Sensing Centre   (India)

^d INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

^e TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

air water CO2 flux; Blue Carbon; fCO2 (water); Hugli Estuary; Matla Estuary; source of CO2

Indexed keywords

AIR; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); RIVERS;

ANNUAL MEAN; CO2 EFFLUX; CO2 EMISSIONS; CO2 FLUXES; EAST COAST OF INDIA; FCO2 (WATER); POST-MONSOON; SOURCE OF CO2;

ESTUARIES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SINK; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FUGACITY; MANGROVE;

HOOGHLY ESTUARY; INDIA; MATLA ESTUARY; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 85003520614     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL070716     Document Type: Article

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