The problem of ocean acidification caused by the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is becoming increasingly prominent.Field observation in the northwest Pacific Ocean was carried out along the 150&#...The problem of ocean acidification caused by the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is becoming increasingly prominent.Field observation in the northwest Pacific Ocean was carried out along the 150°E transect in November 2019.The distribution characteristics and influencing factors of the surface seawater carbonate chemistry,including dissolved inorganic carbon(DIC),total alkalinity(TA),pH,partial pressure of carbon dioxide(pCO_(2))and aragonite saturation state(Ω_(arag))were investigated.DIC and TA ranged from 1915 to 2014μmol kg^(−1)and 2243 to 2291μmol kg^(−1),respectively;DIC in general decreased with decreasing latitude,but TA had no clear latitudinal gradient.pCO_(2)values increased with the decrease of latitude and were all below the atmospheric pCO_(2)level,ranging from 332 to 387μatm.pH on the total hydrogen ion concentration scale(pH_(T))decreased with the decrease of latitude in the range of 8.044–8.110,whileΩ_(arag) increased with the decrease of latitude in the range of 2.61–3.88,suggesting that the spatial distributions of pH_(T) andΩ_(arag) were out of phase.Compared with the present,the predicted values of pH_(T) and Ω_(arag) by the end of this century would decrease remarkedly;larger declines were found in the higher pH_(T) and Ω_(arag) regions,resulting in the differences along the meridional gradient becoming smaller for bothpH_(T) and Ω_(arag).展开更多
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province(No.2020 ZLYS04)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2017YFA0604300)+2 种基金the Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology(No.2018SDKJ0105-1)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.202072001)the Young Scholars Program of Shandong University(No.2018WLJH43).
文摘The problem of ocean acidification caused by the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is becoming increasingly prominent.Field observation in the northwest Pacific Ocean was carried out along the 150°E transect in November 2019.The distribution characteristics and influencing factors of the surface seawater carbonate chemistry,including dissolved inorganic carbon(DIC),total alkalinity(TA),pH,partial pressure of carbon dioxide(pCO_(2))and aragonite saturation state(Ω_(arag))were investigated.DIC and TA ranged from 1915 to 2014μmol kg^(−1)and 2243 to 2291μmol kg^(−1),respectively;DIC in general decreased with decreasing latitude,but TA had no clear latitudinal gradient.pCO_(2)values increased with the decrease of latitude and were all below the atmospheric pCO_(2)level,ranging from 332 to 387μatm.pH on the total hydrogen ion concentration scale(pH_(T))decreased with the decrease of latitude in the range of 8.044–8.110,whileΩ_(arag) increased with the decrease of latitude in the range of 2.61–3.88,suggesting that the spatial distributions of pH_(T) andΩ_(arag) were out of phase.Compared with the present,the predicted values of pH_(T) and Ω_(arag) by the end of this century would decrease remarkedly;larger declines were found in the higher pH_(T) and Ω_(arag) regions,resulting in the differences along the meridional gradient becoming smaller for bothpH_(T) and Ω_(arag).
