2023
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1206062
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Barotropic and baroclinic tides increase primary production on the Northwest European Shelf

Abstract: High biological productivity and the efficient export of carbon-enriched subsurface waters to the open ocean via the continental shelf pump mechanism make mid-latitude continental shelves like the northwest European shelf (NWES) significant sinks for atmospheric CO2. Tidal forcing, as one of the regionally dominant physical forcing mechanisms, regulates the mixing-stratification status of the water column that acts as a major control for biological productivity on the NWES. Because of the complexity of the she… Show more

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“…Processes related to circulation features smaller than ~40-80 km are therefore still underrepresented in our results 71 . This potentially affects, for instance, the formation of tidal fronts and cross-frontal exchange 72 , vertical mixing due to internal waves 73 , and the transport of heat and biogeochemical tracers by small-scale and meso-scale eddies 74 . As high-resolution Earth system modelling is still in its infancy, it is unknown how these processes would modify the carbon fluxes in the global coastal ocean and interact with the larger-scale dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere.…”
Section: Model Limitations and Uncertaintiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Processes related to circulation features smaller than ~40-80 km are therefore still underrepresented in our results 71 . This potentially affects, for instance, the formation of tidal fronts and cross-frontal exchange 72 , vertical mixing due to internal waves 73 , and the transport of heat and biogeochemical tracers by small-scale and meso-scale eddies 74 . As high-resolution Earth system modelling is still in its infancy, it is unknown how these processes would modify the carbon fluxes in the global coastal ocean and interact with the larger-scale dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere.…”
Section: Model Limitations and Uncertaintiesmentioning
confidence: 99%