Estuarine and Coastal Ocean Carbon Paradox: CO2 Sinks or Sites of Terrestrial Carbon Incineration?

WJ Cai - Annual review of marine science, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Estuaries are a major boundary in the land-ocean interaction zone where organic carbon
(OC) and nutrients are being processed, resulting in a high water-to-air carbon dioxide …

Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

RG Najjar, M Herrmann, R Alexander… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon cycling in the coastal zone affects global carbon budgets and is critical for
understanding the urgent issues of hypoxia, acidification, and tidal wetland loss. However …

Air–sea exchanges of CO2 in the world's coastal seas

CTA Chen, TH Huang, YC Chen, Y Bai, X He… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
The air–sea exchanges of CO 2 in the world's 165 estuaries and 87 continental shelves are
evaluated. Generally and in all seasons, upper estuaries with salinities of less than two are …

The marine inorganic carbon system along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts of the United States: Insights from a transregional coastal carbon study

ZA Wang, R Wanninkhof, WJ Cai… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Distributions of total alkalinity (TA), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and other parameters
relevant to the marine inorganic carbon system were investigated in shelf and adjacent …

Anthropogenic and climatic influences on carbon fluxes from eastern North America to the Atlantic Ocean: A process‐based modeling study

H Tian, Q Yang, RG Najjar, W Ren… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude, spatiotemporal patterns, and controls of carbon flux from land to the ocean
remain uncertain. Here we applied a process‐based land model with explicit representation …

Carbon budgets for three autotrophic Australian estuaries: Implications for global estimates of the coastal air‐water CO2 flux

DT Maher, BD Eyre - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Estuaries are 'hot spots' in the global carbon cycle, yet data on carbon dynamics, in
particular air‐sea CO2 fluxes, from autotrophic systems are rare. Estuarine carbon budgets …

Wastewater inputs reduce the CO2 uptake by coastal oceans

Y Li, L Xue, X Yang, Q Wei, M **n, M Xue, C Han… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Every year a large quantity of wastewater is generated worldwide, but its influence on the
carbon dioxide (CO 2) uptake by coastal oceans is not well understood. Here, sea surface …

Inorganic carbon and oxygen dynamics in a marsh‐dominated estuary

SR Wang, D Di Iorio, WJ Cai… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a free‐water mass balance‐based study to address the rate of metabolism
and net carbon exchange for the tidal wetland and estuarine portion of the coastal ocean …

Sea surface aragonite saturation state variations and control mechanisms at the Gray's Reef time-series site off Georgia, USA (2006–2007)

L Xue, WJ Cai, AJ Sutton, C Sabine - Marine Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
We report an annual cycle of surface seawater aragonite mineral saturation state (Ω arag)
during 2006–2007 at the Gray's Reef time-series site off Georgia, USA, calculated based on …

Plankton community respiration, net ecosystem metabolism, and oxygen dynamics on the Louisiana continental shelf: Implications for hypoxia

MC Murrell, RS Stanley, JC Lehrter… - Continental Shelf Research, 2013 - Elsevier
We conducted a multi-year study of the Louisiana continental shelf (LCS) to better
understand the linkages between water column metabolism and the formation of hypoxia …