Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem

SC Doney, VJ Fabry, RA Feely… - Annual review of marine …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), primarily from human fossil fuel combustion,
reduces ocean pH and causes wholesale shifts in seawater carbonate chemistry. The …

Meta‐analysis reveals negative yet variable effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms

KJ Kroeker, RL Kordas, RN Crim, GG Singh - Ecology letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1419–1434 Abstract Ocean acidification is a pervasive stressor
that could affect many marine organisms and cause profound ecological shifts. A variety of …

Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

JC Orr, VJ Fabry, O Aumont, L Bopp, SC Doney… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Today's surface ocean is saturated with respect to calcium carbonate, but increasing
atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are reducing ocean pH and carbonate ion …

[BOOK][B] CO2 in seawater: equilibrium, kinetics, isotopes

RE Zeebe, D Wolf-Gladrow - 2001 - books.google.com
Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas after water vapor in the atmosphere of
the earth. More than 98% of the carbon of the atmosphere-ocean system is stored in the …

Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 on the CaCO3 System in the Oceans

RA Feely, CL Sabine, K Lee, W Berelson, J Kleypas… - Science, 2004 - science.org
Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations over the past two centuries have
led to greater CO2 uptake by the oceans. This acidification process has changed the …

Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

S Menon, KL Denman, G Brasseur, A Chidthaisong… - 2007 - osti.gov
The Earth's climate is determined by a number of complex connected physical, chemical and
biological processes occurring in the atmosphere, land and ocean. The radiative properties …

[BOOK][B] Ocean biogeochemical dynamics

JL Sarmiento - 2006 - degruyter.com
Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics provides a broad theoretical framework upon which
graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the …

Evidence for upwelling of corrosive" acidified" water onto the continental shelf

RA Feely, CL Sabine, JM Hernandez-Ayon, D Ianson… - science, 2008 - science.org
The absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) into the ocean lowers the pH of the
waters. This so-called ocean acidification could have important consequences for marine …

Ocean model predictions of chemistry changes from carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere and ocean

K Caldeira, ME Wickett - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We present ocean chemistry calculations based on ocean general circulation model
simulations of atmospheric CO2 emission, stabilization of atmospheric CO2 content, and …

Ocean systems

HO Pörtner, DM Karl, PW Boyd, W Cheung… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - epic.awi.de
Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …