Formation and transport of corrosive water in the Pacific Arctic region

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Cross, Jessica N., Mathis, Jeremy T., Pickart, Robert S., Bates, Nicholas R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Ocean acidification; Pacific Arctic
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/423355/

Ocean acidification (OA), driven by rising anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), is rapidly advancing in the Pacific Arctic Region (PAR), producing conditions newly corrosive to biologically important carbonate minerals like aragonite. Naturally short linkages across the PAR food web mean that speci...