CARBON DISTRIBUTION, FLUXES, AND BALANCE IN THE ANADYR RIVER BERING SEA ESTUARY

In order to determine the dominant processes involved in the biogeoche mical carbon cycle in the nearshore subarctic zone, interdisciplinary studies were conducted in the marine part of the Anadyr River-Bering S ea estuary in the summer of 1992. The results of investigating the dis tribution of the water-mass parameters (hydrophysical, hydrochemical, and hydrobiological) and the geochemical characteristics of the upper sediment layer are used to identify the natural processes controlling the spatial variability in the content of various carbon forms. The ba lance of estuarine carbon shows good agreement between the input and o utput components.