The Carbon Budget of Coastal Waters of Eastern North America

Raymond Najjar1, Elizabeth W Boyer2, David Burdige3, David E Butman4, Wei-Jun Cai5, Elizabeth A Canuel6, Robert F Chen7, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs8, Peter C Griffith9, Maria Herrmann10, W. Michael Kemp11, Kevin D Kroeger12, Antonio Mannino13, S. Leigh McCallister14, Wade R McGillis15, Margaret R Mullholland16, Joseph Salisbury II17, Sergio R Signorini9, Hanqin Tian18, Maria Tzortziou19, Penny Vlahos20, Aleck Zhaohui Wang21, Richard Carl Zimmerman22 and Cynthia H Pilskaln23, (1)The Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Penn State University, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management, University Park, United States, (3)Old Dominion University, Dept. of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (4)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (6)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, (7)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (8)Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, Gloucester Point, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, (11)University of Maryland, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD, United States, (12)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Ocean Ecology Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, (15)Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (16)Old Dominion University, Ocean and Earth Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (17)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (18)Auburn University, Auburn, United States, (19)City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (20)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, CT, United States, (21)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (22)Old Dominion University, Ocean, Earth, & Atmospheic Sciences, Norfolk, VA, United States, (23)University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford, MA, United States