Oxygen and pCO2 in the Surface Waters of the Atlantic Southern Ocean in 2021–2022

• Published in: Water
• Main Authors: Natalia A. Orekhova, Sergey K. Konovalov, Alexander A. Polukhin, Anna M. Seliverstova
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: dissolved oxygen; pCO 2; Weddell Sea; Scotia Sea; Bransfield Strait; Southern Ocean; Antarctic; Antarctic Sound; Powell Basin; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/w15091642

The carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere has progressively risen since pre-industrial times. About one-third of the anthropogenically generated CO2 is absorbed by the waters of the World Ocean, whereas the waters of the Southern Ocean take up about 40% of this CO2. The concentrations of ox...