Seasonal variability of net sea-air CO(2) fluxes in a coastal region of the northern Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Monteiro, Thiago, Kerr, Rodrigo, Machado, Eunice da Costa
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Gerlache; Gerlache Strait; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7483740/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71814-0

We show an annual overview of the sea-air CO(2) exchanges and primary drivers in the Gerlache Strait, a hotspot for climate change that is ecologically important in the northern Antarctic Peninsula. In autumn and winter, episodic upwelling events increase the remineralized carbon in the sea surface,...