Rapid Changes in Anthropogenic Carbon Storage and Ocean Acidification in the Intermediate Layers of the Eurasian Arctic Ocean: 1996-2015

• The extended multiple linear regression technique is used to determine changes in anthropogenic carbon in the intermediate layers of the Eurasian Basin based on occupations from four cruises between 1996 and 2015. The results show a significant increase in basin-wide anthropogenic carbon storage in the Nansen Basin (0.44-0.73 +/- 0.14 mol Cm-2.year(-1)) and the Amundsen Basin (0.63-1.04 +/- 0.09 mol C.m(-2).year(-1)). Over the last two decades, inferred changes in ocean acidification (0.020-0.055 pH units) and calcium carbonate desaturation (0.05-0.18 units) are pronounced and rapid. These results, together with results from carbonate-dynamic box model simulations and I-129 tracer distribution simulations, suggest that the accumulation of anthropogenic carbon in the intermediate layers of the Eurasian Basin are consistent with increasing concentrations of anthropogenic carbon in source waters of Atlantic origin entering the Arctic Ocean followed by interior transport. The dissimilar distributions of anthropogenic carbon in the interior Nansen and Amundsen Basins are likely due to differences in the lateral ventilation of the intermediate layers by the return flows and ramifications of the boundary current along the topographic boundaries in the Eurasian Basin.

Ämnesord

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

ocean acidification

Arctic Ocean

anthropogenic carbon

Eurasian Basin

Nansen Basin

Amundsen

dissolved inorganic carbon

seawater ph measurements

sea-ice melt

fresh-water

aragonite undersaturation

northeast pacific

atlantic-ocean

cresol purple

surface-water

time-series

Environmental Sciences & Ecology

Geology

Meteorology & Atmospheric

Sciences

en gt

1979

nature

v277

p205

LARSTERN cruise PS94 (ARK-XXIX/3)

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