Nature – Regnier et al. (2022): The land-to-ocean loops of the global carbon cycle
Pierre Regnier, Laure Resplandy, Raymond G. Najjar, Philippe Ciais IN: Nature 603, 401–410 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04339-9
„Carbon storage by the ocean and by the land is usually quantified separately, and does not fully take into account the land-to-ocean transport of carbon through inland waters, estuaries, tidal wetlands and continental shelf waters—the ‘land-to-ocean aquatic continuum’ (LOAC). Using a mass-balance approach, the authors find that the pre-industrial uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by terrestrial ecosystems transferred to the ocean and outgassed back to the atmosphere amounts to 0.65 ± 0.30 petagrams of carbon per year (±2 sigma).“