The British Seas: An Introduction to the Oceanography and Resources of the North-West European Continental Shelf

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Hance D. Smith ◽  
J. Hardisty
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
West European

Modelling the hydrodynamics and ecosystem of the North-West European continental shelf for operational oceanography

2007 ◽  
Vol 65 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 417-429 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Siddorn ◽  
J. Icarus Allen ◽  
Jerry C. Blackford ◽  
Francis J. Gilbert ◽  
Jason T. Holt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Operational Oceanography ◽  
West European

A highly spatially resolved ecosystem model for the North West European Continental Shelf

Sarsia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 423-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Icarus Allen ◽  
Jerry Blackford ◽  
Jason Holt ◽  
Roger Proctor ◽  
Mike Ashworth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Ecosystem Model ◽  
North West ◽  
Spatially Resolved ◽  
The North ◽  
West European

scholarly journals Dynamics of air–sea CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes in the North-West European Shelf based on Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) and satellite observations

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 5641-5695 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Marrec ◽  
T. Cariou ◽  
E. Macé ◽  
P. Morin ◽  
L. A. Salt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Mixed Layer Depth ◽  
Satellite Observations ◽  
Gas Transfer ◽  
Co2 Fluxes ◽  
Transfer Velocity ◽  
Chl A ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
West European

Abstract. From January 2011 to December 2013, we constructed a comprehensive pCO2 dataset based on voluntary observing ship (VOS) measurements in the Western English Channel (WEC). We subsequently estimated surface pCO2 and air–sea CO2 fluxes in north-west European continental shelf waters using multiple linear regressions (MLRs) from remotely sensed sea surface temperature (SST), chlorophyll a concentration (Chl a), the gas transfer velocity coefficient (K), photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) and modeled mixed layer depth (MLD). We developed specific MLRs for the seasonally stratified northern WEC (nWEC) and the permanently well-mixed southern WEC (sWEC) and calculated surface pCO2 with relative uncertainties of 17 and 16 μatm, respectively. We extrapolated the relationships obtained for the WEC based on the 2011–2013 dataset (1) temporally over a decade and (2) spatially in the adjacent Celtic and Irish Seas (CS and IS), two regions which exhibit hydrographical and biogeochemical characteristics similar to those of WEC waters. We validated these extrapolations with pCO2 data from the SOCAT database and obtained relatively robust results with an average precision of 4 ± 22 μatm in the seasonally stratified nWEC and the southern and northern CS (sCS and nCS), but less promising results in the permanently well-mixed sWEC, IS and Cap Lizard (CL) waters. On an annual scale, seasonally stratified systems acted as a sink of CO2 from the atmosphere of −0.4, −0.9 and −0.4 mol C m−2 year−1 in the nCS, sCS and nWEC, respectively, whereas, permanently well-mixed systems acted as source of CO2 to the atmosphere of 0.2, 0.4 and 0.4 mol C m−2 year−1 in the sWEC, CL and IS, respectively. Air–sea CO2 fluxes showed important inter-annual variability resulting in significant differences in the intensity and/or direction of annual fluxes. We scaled the mean annual fluxes over six provinces for the last decade and obtained the first annual average uptake of −0.95 Tg C year−1 for this part of the north-western European continental shelf. Our study showed that combining VOS data with satellite observations can be a powerful tool to estimate and extrapolate air–sea CO2 fluxes in sparsely sampled area.

scholarly journals Predicting the standing stock of organic carbon in surface sediments of the North–West European continental shelf

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 183-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Diesing ◽  
Silke Kröger ◽  
Ruth Parker ◽  
Chris Jenkins ◽  
Claire Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Surface Sediments ◽  
Standing Stock ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
West European
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