A model study of the evolution over the past 50 years of air-sea CO2 fluxes in the Belgian coastal zone (Southern Bight of the North Sea)

The coupled river-coastal sea model RIVERSTRAHLER-MIRO-CO2 (R-MIROCO2) is used to appraise how nutrient loads and increased atmospheric CO2 are affecting contemporary air-sea CO2 exchanges in the Belgian coastal zone (BCZ) (Southern Bight of the North Sea). R-MIRO-CO2 results of the offline coupling between RIVERSTRAHLER C, N, P and Si river loads to the coastal zone constrained by meteorological conditions and human activity on the watershed and the MIRO-CO2 model of C, N, P, Si cycles in the coastal sea. For this application, the marine MIROCO2 model is implemented in a 0D multi-box frame co... Mehr ...