Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Disparate acidification and calcium carbonate desaturation of deep and shallow waters of the Arctic Ocean

  • Yiming Luo,
  • Bernard P. Boudreau,
  • Alfonso Mucci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12821
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Anthropogenic CO2is acidifying the Arctic Ocean surface, with current models predicting downward penetration to deep waters. Here, based on an alternative model supported by available saturation data, the authors show simultaneous acidification of both surface and deep waters.