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TI Carbonate system in the water masses of the Southeast Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during February and March 2008
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AF GONZALEZ-DAVILA, M.
   SANTANA-CASIANO, J. M.
   FINE, R. A.
   HAPPELL, J.
   DELILLE, B.
   SPEICH, Sabrina
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C1 Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Fac Ciencias Mar, Dept Quim, Las Palmas Gran Canaria 35017, Spain.
   Univ Miami, Rosenstiel Sch, Miami, FL 33149 USA.
   Univ Liege, Astrophys Geophys & Oceanog Dept, Unit Oceanog Chim, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
   CNRS IFREMER UBO, Lab Phys Oceans LPO, Brest, France.
C2 UNIV LAS PALMAS GRAN CANARIA, SPAIN
   UNIV MIAMI, USA
   UNIV LIEGE, BELGIUM
   UBO, FRANCE
IN DOAJ
IF 3.859
TC 13
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00039/15057/12376.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 166 / BONUS-GOODHOPE
BO Marion Dufresne
AB Carbonate system variables were measured in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean along a transect from South Africa to the southern limit of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) from February to March 2008. Eddies detached from the retroflection of the Agulhas Current increased the gradients observed along the fronts. Minima in the fugacity of CO2, fCO(2), and maxima in pH on either side of the frontal zone were observed, noting that within the frontal zone fCO(2) reached maximum values and pH was at a minimum. Vertical distributions of water masses were described by their carbonate system properties and their relationship to CFC concentrations. Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW) and Lower Circumpolar Deep Water (LCDW) offered pH(T,25) values of 7.56 and 7.61, respectively. The UCDW also had higher concentrations of CFC-12 (>0.2 pmol kg(-1)) as compared to deeper waters, revealing that UCDW was mixed with recently ventilated waters. Calcite and aragonite saturation states (Omega) were also affected by the presence of these two water masses with high carbonate concentrations. The aragonite saturation horizon was observed at 1000 m in the subtropical area and north of the Subantarctic Front. At the position of the Polar Front, and under the influence of UCDW and LCDW, the aragonite saturation horizon deepened from 800 m to 1500 m at 50.37 degrees S, and reached 700 m south of 57.5 degrees S. High latitudes proved to be the most sensitive areas to predicted anthropogenic carbon increase. Buffer coefficients related to changes in [CO2], [H+] and Omega with changes in dissolved inorganic carbon (C-T) and total alkalinity (A(T)) offered minima values in the Antarctic Intermediate Water and UCDW layers. These coefficients suggest that a small increase in C-T will sharply decrease the status of pH and carbonate saturation. Here we present data that suggest that south of 55 degrees S, surface water will be under-saturated with respect to aragonite within the next few decades.
PY 2011
SO Biogeosciences
SN 1726-4170
PU Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh
VL 8
IS 5
UT 000291942000002
BP 1401
EP 1413
DI 10.5194/bg-8-1401-2011
ID 15057
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