CLISAP flexible pool project research area: D3 (relevant also for A3) (http://www.clisap.de/)
Johannes Pätsch, Wilfried Kühn, Andreas Moll, Ina Lorkowski (IfM)
 Axel Temming, Mike St John, Christian Möllmann, Bettina Walter (IHF)

Objectives
The carbon shelf-pump on the Northwest-European Shelf absorbs atmospheric CO₂ on the shelf and exports inorganic and organic carbon into the adjacent deep North Atlantic. This mechanism is driven by physical-, chemical and biological processes. Especially phytoplankton sequesters atmospheric CO₂. Climatic and anthropogenic changes bear the potential to induce shifts in phytoplankton composition. To which extend such shifts have an impact on the strength of the carbon shelf-pump is investigated in the current project.

Subtasks
·    decadal simulation of the shelf system
·    separation of the different pump mechanisms
·    impact of changing phytoplankton composition

Tools
·    hydrodynamic model HAMSOM
·    ecosystem model ECOHAM4


Contact: johannes.paetsch(at)zmaw.de