Carbon budget for the continental shelf of the Eastern United States R. Najjar, D. Butman, W.-J. Cai, M. Friedrichs, A. Mannino, P. Raymond, J. Salisbury,

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Carbon budget for the continental shelf of the Eastern United States R. Najjar, D. Butman, W.-J. Cai, M. Friedrichs, A. Mannino, P. Raymond, J. Salisbury, and D. Vandemark Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Meeting July 20-24, 2009

500 m isobath

Fluxes of interest Interfacial fluxes: Inputs from land of DOC, POC, and DIC Air-sea: Exchange of CO 2, rainwater DOC Sedimentary fluxes: POC deposition, DOC & DIC exchange Shelf-break exchange: DIC, DOC, POC Convention: >0 when input to water column Internal fluxes: Primary production Respiration Net community production

Input from land (10 12 g C yr -1 ) DICDOCPOCReference GOM0.5NA DIC: Friedrichs MAB ± 0.09 (estuary) 0.56 (river) (TOC) NA DOC: Vlahos et al. (2002), Raymond and Bauer (2000) TOC: Bauer et al. (2008) SAB 0.6 (river) 0.7 (marsh) 0.75 (river) (TOC) 0.15 (river) DIC: Wang (2003), Cai and Wang (2008) DOC & POC: Cai et al. (2003) TOC: Bauer et al. (2008) Total2.9>~1.6~0.3 Total C input from land >~ 5

East Coast DOC Sites 257 USGS gauging stations with DOC concentrations Watersheds delineated from the NHDPlus dataset Yields calculated using LOADEST model Will also look at POC, DIC & Alk

Air-to-sea CO 2 fluxes g C yr -1 mol m -2 yr -1 Reference GOMNA ± 0.55 (western GOM) Vandemark and Salisbury (in prep.) MAB1.6 ± ± 0.7 DeGrandpre et al. (2002) 1 SAB0.52 ± ± 0.21 Jiang et al. (2008) MAB + SAB 2.1 ± ± 0.39 Global mean ~0.5 mol m -2 yr. 1 Recomputed by Fennel et al. (2008) using different areas.

Rainwater DOC fluxes GoM, MAB precip. ~ 1 m yr -1 [DOC] in rain ~ mmol m -3 Fluxes ~ 0.05 – 0.1 mol C m -2 yr -1 Total flux to shelf ~ 0.28 ± 0.09 × g C yr -1

Sediment-water interface ( g C yr -1 ) DICDOC POC (burial) GOMNA ± 0.22 Charette et al. (2001) MABNA SAB8 ± 11NA Jahnke et al. (2005)

Cross-shelf exchange ( g C yr -1 ) DICDOCPOC GOMNA -1.3 ± 2.9 (TOC) NA Charette et al. (2001) MABNA Vlahos et al. (2002) Falkowski et al. (1994) SAB-2.6NA

USECoS Model fluxes from open ocean TransectPOCDIC Inner GOM/MAB to to -44 Middle GOM/MAB to to +152 Outer GOM/MAB -1.3 to to +472 SAB-0.55 to to +0.1 M. Friedrichs analysis of NENA1 simulation, (10 12 g C yr -1 )

Water column primary production g C yr -1 mol m -2 yr -1 GOM O’Reilly et al. (1987) Balch et al. (2008) MAB3926O’Reilly et al. (1987) SAB Menzel et al. (1993) Total10026 (0.2% of global primary production, global areal mean = 12 mol m -2 yr -1 )

f-ratios GOM , southwest spring, west 0.30, central Townsend (1998) Benitez-Nelson et al. (2000) Charette et al. (2001) Salisbury et al. (2009) Najjar et al. (in prep) MABNA SABNA

Respiration SAB, about the same as primary production (Jiang et al. 2009) Few measurements in MAB, GoM

Shelf-wide budget (10 12 g C yr -1 ) DOC in rain 0.28 ± 0.09 CO ± 1.0 DIC & TOC > 5 Land Atmosphere Water column DOC ~ 8 Open Ocean DIC? POC? Prim. Prod. 100 Resp.? Export Prod.? Sediments POC DOC DIC

Important but poorly known Cross shelf water & C budgets Estuarine/marsh processing of C Water column respiration (SAB) Shelf sediment fluxes (better on slope!)

Thank you