Ocean acidification may be increasing the intensity of lightning over the oceans

Abstract The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO 2 is not only considered to drive global warming, but also ocean acidification. Previous studies have shown that acidification will affect many aspects of biogenic carbon uptake and release in the surface water of the oceans. In this report we pr...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Asfur, Mustafa, Silverman, Jacob, Price, Colin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
Subjects:
Multidisciplinary
Ocean acidification
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8
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spelling crspringernat:10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8 2023-05-15T17:49:53+02:00 Ocean acidification may be increasing the intensity of lightning over the oceans Asfur, Mustafa Silverman, Jacob Price, Colin 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8 http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79066-8.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-79066-8 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Scientific Reports volume 10, issue 1 ISSN 2045-2322 Multidisciplinary journal-article 2020 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8 2022-01-04T14:58:25Z Abstract The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO 2 is not only considered to drive global warming, but also ocean acidification. Previous studies have shown that acidification will affect many aspects of biogenic carbon uptake and release in the surface water of the oceans. In this report we present a potential novel impact of acidification on the flash intensity of lightning discharged into the oceans. Our experimental results show that a decrease in ocean pH corresponding to the predicted increase in atmospheric CO 2 according to the IPCC RCP 8.5 worst case emission scenario, may increase the intensity of lightning discharged into seawater by approximately 30 ± 7% by the end of the twenty-first century relative to 2000. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Springer Nature (via Crossref) Scientific Reports 10 1
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description Abstract The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO 2 is not only considered to drive global warming, but also ocean acidification. Previous studies have shown that acidification will affect many aspects of biogenic carbon uptake and release in the surface water of the oceans. In this report we present a potential novel impact of acidification on the flash intensity of lightning discharged into the oceans. Our experimental results show that a decrease in ocean pH corresponding to the predicted increase in atmospheric CO 2 according to the IPCC RCP 8.5 worst case emission scenario, may increase the intensity of lightning discharged into seawater by approximately 30 ± 7% by the end of the twenty-first century relative to 2000.
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