Changing pH in the Surface Ocean
In 1896, Arrhenius provided the first roughly quantitative sense of the plausible magnitude of human-induced changes in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Since then, all chemists could be aware that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere must lead to increasing amounts in the ocean and a corresp...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:de46b413787a493ab68e4f74f350e76e 2023-05-15T17:51:13+02:00 Changing pH in the Surface Ocean Michael E.Q. Pilson 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.15 https://doaj.org/article/de46b413787a493ab68e4f74f350e76e EN eng The Oceanography Society http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-1_pilson.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1042-8275 doi:10.5670/oceanog.2014.15 1042-8275 https://doaj.org/article/de46b413787a493ab68e4f74f350e76e Oceanography, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 120-125 (2014) ocean acidification ocean pH CO2 concentration Oceanography GC1-1581 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.15 2022-12-30T21:34:35Z In 1896, Arrhenius provided the first roughly quantitative sense of the plausible magnitude of human-induced changes in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Since then, all chemists could be aware that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere must lead to increasing amounts in the ocean and a corresponding increase in acidity. For a long time, however, no one appears to have thought much about this latter consequence, probably because the likely effects were small and were, in any case, rather troublesome to calculate. It was only in 1909 that Sørensen proposed the concept of the pH scale. The negligible level of concern about the effect of CO2 on Earth's heat balance was not much affected by the work of Callendar (1938), who argued that the increasing concentrations in the atmosphere could be observed and would be significant. The radiative balance calculations of Plass (1956), published in Tellus, began to influence those who read such journals, and the beginnings of the Keeling curve brought widespread attention to the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Oceanography 27 1 120 125 |
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In 1896, Arrhenius provided the first roughly quantitative sense of the plausible magnitude of human-induced changes in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. Since then, all chemists could be aware that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere must lead to increasing amounts in the ocean and a corresponding increase in acidity. For a long time, however, no one appears to have thought much about this latter consequence, probably because the likely effects were small and were, in any case, rather troublesome to calculate. It was only in 1909 that Sørensen proposed the concept of the pH scale. The negligible level of concern about the effect of CO2 on Earth's heat balance was not much affected by the work of Callendar (1938), who argued that the increasing concentrations in the atmosphere could be observed and would be significant. The radiative balance calculations of Plass (1956), published in Tellus, began to influence those who read such journals, and the beginnings of the Keeling curve brought widespread attention to the increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration |
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Changing pH in the Surface Ocean |
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