Alkalinity responses to climate warming destabilise the Earth’s thermostat

Nele Lehmann; Tobias Stacke; Sebastian Lehmann; Hugues Lantuit; John Gosse; Chantal Mears; Jens Hartmann; Helmuth Thomas

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37165-w

Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Alkalinity responses to climate warming destabilise the Earth’s thermostat

Nele Lehmann,
Tobias Stacke,
Sebastian Lehmann,
Hugues Lantuit,
John Gosse,
Chantal Mears,
Jens Hartmann,
Helmuth Thomas

Affiliations

Nele Lehmann: Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Tobias Stacke: Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Sebastian Lehmann
Hugues Lantuit: Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
John Gosse: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University
Chantal Mears: Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Jens Hartmann: Institute for Geology, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), University Hamburg
Helmuth Thomas: Institute of Carbon Cycles, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37165-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The weathering alkalinity flux from mid-latitudes to the ocean will be strongly altered by climate warming by 2100. Under different emissions scenarios either a strengthening or a weakening of the flux and thus of the oceanic CO2 buffer is predicted.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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