Trends and variability in the ocean carbon sink

N Gruber, DCE Bakker, T DeVries, L Gregor… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The ocean has absorbed 25±2% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions from the early
1960s to the late 2010s, with rates more than tripling over this period and with a mean …

Oceans and coastal ecosystems and their services

S Cooley, D Schoeman, L Bopp, P Boyd, S Donner… - 2023 - digital.csic.es
Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Global carbon and other biogeochemical cycles and feedbacks

JG Canadell, PMS Monteiro, MH Costa… - IPCC AR6 WGI, final …, 2021 - hal.science
ES 6: 3-5 Replace “It is unequivocal that emissions of the well-mixed greenhouse gases
(GHG) carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2 O) from human activities …

Enhanced CO2 uptake of the coastal ocean is dominated by biological carbon fixation

M Mathis, F Lacroix, S Hagemann, DM Nielsen… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Observational reconstructions indicate a contemporary increase in coastal ocean CO2
uptake. However, the mechanisms and their relative importance in driving this globally …

Dissolution enables dolomite crystal growth near ambient conditions

J Kim, Y Kimura, B Puchala, T Yamazaki, U Becker… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Crystals grow in supersaturated solutions. A mysterious counterexample is dolomite CaMg
(CO3) 2, a geologically abundant sedimentary mineral that does not readily grow at ambient …

Climate change drives rapid decadal acidification in the Arctic Ocean from 1994 to 2020

D Qi, Z Ouyang, L Chen, Y Wu, R Lei, B Chen… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Arctic Ocean has experienced rapid warming and sea ice loss in recent decades,
becoming the first open-ocean basin to experience widespread aragonite undersaturation …

African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates

MI Vousdoukas, J Clarke, R Ranasinghe… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
The African coast contains heritage sites of 'Outstanding Universal Value'that face
increasing risk from anthropogenic climate change. Here, we generated a database of 213 …

OceanSODA-ETHZ: a global gridded data set of the surface ocean carbonate system for seasonal to decadal studies of ocean acidification

L Gregor, N Gruber - Earth System Science Data Discussions, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Ocean acidification has altered the ocean's carbonate chemistry profoundly since
preindustrial times, with potentially serious consequences for marine life. Yet, no long-term …

Four decades of trends and drivers of global surface ocean acidification

D Ma, L Gregor, N Gruber - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The oceans are acidifying in response to the oceanic uptake of anthropogenic carbon
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, yet the global‐scale progression of this acidification has …