Future of the Sea: Ocean Acidification

• Main Authors: Birchenough, SNR, Williamson, P, Turley, CM
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Government Office Science 2017
• Subjects: Ecology and Environment; Marine Sciences; Williamson; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7775/; http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7775/1/Ocean_Acidification_final_v3.pdf; https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/645500/Ocean_Acidification_final_v3.pdf

Ocean acidification (OA) and climate change are both influenced by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations coming from the atmosphere. However, the distinction between OA and climate change, is that OA is an alteration of the chemistry of seawater, therefore not a direct climatic process. The ocean...