An examination of the 'continental shelf pump' in an open ocean general circulation model

摘要: In a recent study of the shelf region of the East China Sea, Tsunogai et al.[1999] estimated that a combination of air‐sea exchange and biological and physical transport processes could transfer carbon from the shelf region into the open ocean at a rate of 35 g C m− 2 yr− 1. Contrasting with the solubility and biological pumps of the open ocean, they described this collective activity as the “continental shelf pump” and suggested that if this pump operated throughout the world's shelf regions, it could be responsible for ocean uptake of∼ …