Denitrification effects on air-sea CO2 flux in the coastal ocean: Simulations for the northwest North Atlantic

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008georl..3524608f&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 35, Issue 24, CiteID L24608

Mathematics

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Biogeosciences: Biogeochemical Cycles, Processes, And Modeling (0412, 0793, 1615, 4805, 4912), Geochemistry: Geochemical Modeling (3610, 8410), Geochemistry: Geochemical Cycles (0330)

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The contribution of coastal oceans to the global air-sea CO2 flux is poorly quantified due to insufficient availability of observations and inherent variability of physical, biological and chemical processes. We present simulated air-sea CO2 fluxes from a high-resolution biogeochemical model for the North American east coast continental shelves, a region characterized by significant sediment denitrification. Decreased availability of fixed nitrogen due to denitrification reduces primary production and incorporation of inorganic carbon into organic matter, which leads to an increase in seawater pCO2, but also increases alkalinity, which leads to an opposing decrease in seawater pCO2. Comparison of simulations with different numerical treatments of denitrification and alkalinity allow us to separate and quantify the contributions of sediment denitrification to air-sea CO2 flux. The effective alkalinity flux resulting from denitrification is large compared to estimates of anthropogenically driven coastal acidification.

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