Table 3 Rates of change in ΔpCO2 in different regions calculated as the average of the rates derived for each cell of the region

From: Continental shelves as a variable but increasing global sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide

Region

Narrow shelf

Wide shelf

d(ΔpCO2)/dt

σ

n

d(ΔpCO2)/dt

σ

n

Large regions (>50 cells according to narrow shelf definition)

  North Sea

1.86

1.55

169

1.81

1.37

186

  Baltic Sea

2.93

2.38

114

2.93

2.38

114

  Labrador Sea

0.68

0.61

104

0.71

0.67

115

  English Channel

0.0

0.43

86

−0.03

0.39

89

  Mid-Atlantic Bight

1.93

3.11

76

1.92

3.19

78

  Coast of Japan

0.77

0.69

56

0.22

0.7

175

Small regions (>20 cells according to narrow shelf definition)

  Cascadian shelf

0.83

1.72

27

0.97

1.23

49

  Patagonia

−0.21

0.38

27

−0.11

0.35

33

  Irminger Sea

0.56

0.23

26

0.47

0.35

35

  Bering Sea

−1.11

0.74

24

−1.44

0.94

42

  Antarctic Peninsula

2.28

1.24

22

1.57

0.95

50

  South Greenland

1.95

1.22

20

1.73

0.8

29

  South Atlantic Bight

0.51

0.74

18

0.7

0.7

26

  Tasmania

0.11

0.12

16

0.15

0.17

25

  Barents Sea

0.38

0.52

10

0.31

0.41

42

  1. The standard deviation (σ) and the number of cells available (n) using our narrow and wide definitions of the continental shelf are also reported
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