Regional seas and their interception of riverine fluxes to oceans

✍ Scribed by M. Meybeck; H.H. Dürr; S. Roussennac; W. Ludwig

• Book ID: 104041434
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 955 KB
• Volume: 106
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0304-4203
• DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2007.01.002

✦ Synopsis

Regional seas (n = 19), archipelago coasts (n = 3) and extended coastal platforms (n = 2) are here considered as mega filters of land-ocean linkage through river fluxes. They are differentiated on the basis of morphological characteristics and they correspond to 7.2% of the global ocean area and to 2.4% of its volume. Their catchment characteristics (48 indicators for catchment relief, lithology, climate; river inputs of total suspended solids TSS, total N and dissolved SiO 2 ; population) are determined on the basis of a recombination of 69 individual coastal segments and catchments (COSCATs, [