Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/7466 2023-05-15T17:51:40+02:00 Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea Goodkin, Nathalie F. Wang, Bo-Shian You, Chen-Feng Hughen, Konrad A. Prouty, Nancy G. Bates, Nicholas R. Doney, Scott C. 2015-06-25 application/pdf application/msword https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7466 en_US eng John Wiley & Sons https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064431 Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 4931–4939 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/7466 doi:10.1002/2015GL064431 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 4931–4939 doi:10.1002/2015GL064431 AMO NAO Coral del11B proxy pH Article 2015 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL064431 2022-05-28T22:59:23Z © The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 4931–4939, doi:10.1002/2015GL064431. The oceans absorb anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere, lowering surface ocean pH, a concern for calcifying marine organisms. The impact of ocean acidification is challenging to predict as each species appears to respond differently and because our knowledge of natural changes to ocean pH is limited in both time and space. Here we reconstruct 222 years of biennial seawater pH variability in the Sargasso Sea from a brain coral, Diploria labyrinthiformis. Using hydrographic data from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study and the coral-derived pH record, we are able to differentiate pH changes due to surface temperature versus those from ocean circulation and biogeochemical changes. We find that ocean pH does not simply reflect atmospheric CO2 trends but rather that circulation/biogeochemical changes account for >90% of pH variability in the Sargasso Sea and more variability in the last century than would be predicted from anthropogenic uptake of CO2 alone. Funding to N.F.G. was provided by the University of Hong Kong and the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Singapore NRF Fellowship scheme (National Research Fellow Award NRF-RF2012-03), as administered by the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of Education under the Research Centres of Excellence initiative. S.C.D. and K.A.H. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Geophysical Research Letters 42 12 4931 4939 |
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© The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 42 (2015): 4931–4939, doi:10.1002/2015GL064431. The oceans absorb anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere, lowering surface ocean pH, a concern for calcifying marine organisms. The impact of ocean acidification is challenging to predict as each species appears to respond differently and because our knowledge of natural changes to ocean pH is limited in both time and space. Here we reconstruct 222 years of biennial seawater pH variability in the Sargasso Sea from a brain coral, Diploria labyrinthiformis. Using hydrographic data from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study and the coral-derived pH record, we are able to differentiate pH changes due to surface temperature versus those from ocean circulation and biogeochemical changes. We find that ocean pH does not simply reflect atmospheric CO2 trends but rather that circulation/biogeochemical changes account for >90% of pH variability in the Sargasso Sea and more variability in the last century than would be predicted from anthropogenic uptake of CO2 alone. Funding to N.F.G. was provided by the University of Hong Kong and the National Research Foundation Singapore under its Singapore NRF Fellowship scheme (National Research Fellow Award NRF-RF2012-03), as administered by the Earth Observatory of Singapore and the Singapore Ministry of Education under the Research Centres of Excellence initiative. S.C.D. and K.A.H. acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. |
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Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea |
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Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea |
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Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea |
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Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea |
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Ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water pH changes in the Sargasso Sea |
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ocean circulation and biogeochemistry moderate interannual and decadal surface water ph changes in the sargasso sea |
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