Decadal acidification in the water masses of the Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Ríos, Aida F., Resplandy, Laure, García-Ibáñez, Maribel I., Fajar, Noelia M., Velo, Anton, Padin, Xose A., Wanninkhof, Rik, Steinfeldt, Reiner, Rosón, Gabriel, Pérez, Fiz F., Morel, François M.M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Laplace; North Atlantic; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77096/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/77096/1/Published_Version.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504613112

Global ocean acidification is caused primarily by the ocean's uptake of CO2 as a consequence of increasing atmospheric CO2 levels. We present observations of the oceanic decrease in pH at the basin scale (50°S-36°N) for the Atlantic Ocean over two decades (1993-2013). Changes in pH associated w...