Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Table 2
(continued)
Study sites
Country/
Length/
DOC
Reference
watershed area
a
Surface (Depth)
c
Deeper (Depth)
b
latitudes
km or (km
2
)
a
(
μ
M C)
Kara Sea, an estuary of Arctic Ocean
72-73ºN
-
423-537
-
Opsahl et al. (
1999
)
Middle Atlantic Bight (MAB)
USA
-
82-98
48-90 (90-
2600 m)
Mitra et al. (
2000
)
Arctic shelf, the Beaufort Sea
Canada
-
97-229
-
Osburn et al. (
2009
)
Arctic Gulf, the Beaufort Sea
Canada
-
70-126
-
Osburn et al. (
2009
)
South Baltic Sea
53-66ºN
-
474-616
-
Ferrari et al. (
1996
), Ferrari
and Dowell (
1998
)
Northern Gulf of Maxico
35-41ºN
-
50-100
-
Wang et al. (
2004
)
North Paciic Ocean
31ºN
-
87
38-55 (200-
6000 m)
Williams and Druffel (
1987
)
Western North Paciic
35ºN
-
85-117
66-73 (150 m)
Ogawa and Ogura (
1992
)
Arctic Ocean
74-81ºN
-
58-85 (50-200 m) 49-54 (>1000 m) Opsahl et al. (
1999
)
Atlantic Ocean
3-75ºN
-
50-97 (<100 m)
33-59 (>1000 m) Ogawa and Tanoue (
2003
)
Paciic Ocean
0-58ºN, 1267ºS
-
40-90
34-45
Ogawa and Tanoue (
2003
)
Indian Ocean; Arabian Sea
5-20ºN
-
55-95
43
Ogawa and Tanoue (
2003
)
Antarctis Ocean
42-77ºS
-
38-75
34-60
Ogawa and Tanoue (
2003
)
Arctic Ocean
70-85ºN
-
34-107
49-54
Ogawa and Tanoue (
2003
)
“n” indicates the number of upstreams, rivers and lakes whereas DOC levels are mentioned for ranges or average of the samples
a
means the watershed area (km
2
) applicable to lakes and the values in parentheses are river watershed area
b
means the water depth in lakes and oceans and values are mentioned within the bracket
c
means the surface layer and depth belongs within 0-50 m
