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| Perez, Fiz F; Fontela, Marcos; Garcia-ibanez, Maria Isabel; Mercier, Herle; Velo, Anton; Lherminier, Pascale; Zunino, Patricia; De La Paz, Mercedes; Alonso-perez, Fernando; Guallart, Elisa E.; Padin, Xose A.. |
| Since the Industrial Revolution, the North Atlantic Ocean has been accumulating anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) and experiencing ocean acidification1, that is, an increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions (a reduction in pH) and a reduction in the concentration of carbonate ions. The latter causes the ‘aragonite saturation horizon’—below which waters are undersaturated with respect to a particular calcium carbonate, aragonite—to move to shallower depths (to shoal), exposing corals to corrosive waters2,3. Here we use a database analysis to show that the present rate of supply of acidified waters to the deep Atlantic could cause the aragonite saturation horizon to shoal by 1,000–1,700 metres in the subpolar North Atlantic within the next three... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00426/53783/55106.pdf |
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| Zunino, Patricia; Lherminier, Pascale; Mercier, Herle; Padin, Xose A.; Rios, Aida F.; Perez, Fiz F.. |
| The subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA) is important in the global carbon cycle because of the deep water ventilation processes that lead to both high uptake of atmospheric CO2 and large inventories of anthropogenic CO2 (C-ant). Thus, it is crucial to understand its response to increasing anthropogenic pressures. In this work, the budgets of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), C-ant and natural DIC (DICnat) in the eastern SPNA in the 2000s, are jointly analyzed using in situ data. The DICnat budget is found to be in steady state, confirming a long-standing hypothesis from in situ data for the first time. The biological activity is driving the uptake of natural CO2 from the atmosphere. The C-ant increase in the ocean is solely responsible of the DIC storage rate... |
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| Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00313/42419/41756.pdf |
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