Developing an Global Ocean Acidification Observation Network
Since the beginning of industrialization, the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), originated largely from human fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, is causing a decrease in ocean pH and shifts in seawater carbonate chemistry. This process called ocean acidification is well establishe...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.6153 http://www.oceanobs09.net/plenary/files/draft papers/Iglesias-Rodriguez-Ocean-acidification-paper09.pdf |
| Summary: | Since the beginning of industrialization, the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), originated largely from human fossil fuel combustion and deforestation, is causing a decrease in ocean pH and shifts in seawater carbonate chemistry. This process called ocean acidification is well established from field data, and the rate of change in ocean pH and carbon chemistry is expected to accelerate over this century unless future CO2 emissions are restricted radically. The rate of CO2 increase is at least an order of magnitude faster than experienced by the Earth for millions of years and the current |
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