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Biological export production controls upper ocean calcium carbonate dissolution and CO2 buffer capacity
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2024
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Source: Science Advances, 10(13)
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Description:Marine biogenic calcium carbonate (CaCO 3 ) cycles play a key role in ecosystems and in regulating the ocean’s ability to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). However, the drivers and magnitude of CaCO 3 cycling are not well understood, especially for the upper ocean. Here, we provide global-scale evidence that heterotrophic respiration in settling marine aggregates may produce localized undersaturated microenvironments in which CaCO 3 particles rapidly dissolve, producing excess alkalinity in the upper ocean. In the deep ocean, dissolution of CaCO 3 is primarily driven by conventional thermodynamics of CaCO 3 solubility with reduced fluxes of CaCO 3 burial to marine sediments beneath more corrosive North Pacific deep waters. Upper ocean dissolution, shown to be sensitive to ocean export production, can increase the neutralizing capacity for respired CO 2 by up to 6% in low-latitude thermocline waters. Without upper ocean dissolution, the ocean might lose 20% more CO 2 to the atmosphere through the low-latitude upwelling regions.
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Source:Science Advances, 10(13)
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ISSN:2375-2548
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