Carbon Dioxide Effects Research and Assessment Program. Some Aspects of the Role of the Shallow Ocean in Global Carbon Dioxide Uptake

摘要

The purpose of the Workshop was to assess the role of the oceanic mixed layer, especially the shallow waters of shelves, seas, and estuaries, as a sink or source for atmospheric carbon dioxide. Most preceding studies have involved waters well away from shore and have not considered processes such as organic carbon production and storage in shelf sediments or in sediments of estuaries, or chemical interactions of CO sub 2 with carbonates in sediments or with suspended particles of the shallow ocean. Therefore, the Workshop was convened to assess the importance of such processes, and to make recommendations for further work on those aspects of CO sub 2 storage that seemed important in the controls of atmospheric carbon dioxide. (ERA citation 06:009618)