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 pools and fluxes in the China Seas and adjacent oceans

N Jiao, Y Liang, Y Zhang, J Liu, Y Zhang… - Science China Earth …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The China Seas include the South China Sea, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, and
Bohai Sea. Located off the Northwestern Pacific margin, covering 4700000 km 2 from …

Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication

WJ Cai, X Hu, WJ Huang, MC Murrell, JC Lehrter… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Human inputs of nutrients to coastal waters can lead to the excessive production of algae, a
process known as eutrophication. Microbial consumption of this organic matter lowers …

Continental shelves as a variable but increasing global sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide

GG Laruelle, WJ Cai, X Hu, N Gruber… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
It has been speculated that the partial pressure of carbon dioxide (p CO2) in shelf waters
may lag the rise in atmospheric CO2. Here, we show that this is the case across many shelf …

Why are some marginal seas sources of atmospheric CO2?

M Dai, Z Cao, X Guo, W Zhai, Z Liu… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The contemporary coastal ocean, characterized by abundant nutrients and high primary
productivity, is generally seen as a significant CO2 sink at the global scale. However …

The South China sea: paleoceanography and sedimentology

Z Ding - 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The South China Sea is the largest low‐latitude marginal sea on the globe. For a long time,
researchers from various fields have been curious about the sea. For instance, geologists …

Impact of the Kuroshio intrusion on the nutrient inventory in the upper northern South China Sea: insights from an isopycnal mixing model

C Du, Z Liu, M Dai, SJ Kao, Z Cao, Y Zhang… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
Based on four cruises covering a seasonal cycle in 2009–2011, we examined the impact of
the Kuroshio intrusion, featured by extremely oligotrophic waters, on the nutrient inventory in …

The SouthEast Asian time-series study (SEATS) and the biogeochemistry of the South China Sea—an overview

GTF Wong, TL Ku, M Mulholland, CM Tseng… - Deep Sea Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
As part of the time-series program in the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), the major
objective of the multidisciplinary and multi-institutional SouthEast Asian Time-series Study …

Partial pressure of CO2 and air-sea CO2 fluxes in the South China Sea: Synthesis of an 18-year dataset

Q Li, X Guo, W Zhai, Y Xu, M Dai - Progress in Oceanography, 2020 - Elsevier
This study synthesizes spatial and temporal variations in surface seawater pCO 2 (partial
pressure of CO 2) and associated air-sea CO 2 fluxes in the largest marginal sea of the …

Seasonal variations of sea–air CO2 fluxes in the largest tropical marginal sea (South China Sea) based on multiple-year underway measurements

WD Zhai, MH Dai, BS Chen, XH Guo, Q Li… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
Based upon 14 field surveys conducted between 2003 and 2008, we showed that the
seasonal pattern of sea surface partial pressure of CO 2 (pCO 2) and sea–air CO 2 fluxes …