Export of calcium carbonate corrosive waters from the East Siberian Sea

Anderson, Leif G.; Ek, Jörgen; Ericson, Ylva; Humborg, Christoph; Semiletov, Igor; Sundbom, Marcus; Ulfsbo, Adam

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1811-2017

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05 Apr 2017

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| 05 Apr 2017

Export of calcium carbonate corrosive waters from the East Siberian Sea

Leif G. Anderson, Jörgen Ek, Ylva Ericson, Christoph Humborg, Igor Semiletov, Marcus Sundbom, and Adam Ulfsbo

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SC1: 'Comment on East Siberian Sea corrosive waters paper', Nicholas Bates, 16 Nov 2016
RC1: 'marine biogeochemistry', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Dec 2016
- AC1: 'reply ref 1', Leif Anderson, 06 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Referee Comment', johan ingri, 18 Jan 2017
- AC2: 'Reply ref 2', Leif Anderson, 06 Feb 2017
RC3: 'Review on Anderson et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 Jan 2017
- AC3: 'Reply ref 3', Leif Anderson, 06 Feb 2017

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (08 Feb 2017) by Örjan Gustafsson

AR by Leif Anderson on behalf of the Authors (21 Feb 2017)

ED: Publish as is (13 Mar 2017) by Örjan Gustafsson

AR by Leif Anderson on behalf of the Authors (19 Mar 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

Waters with very high pCO₂, nutrients and low oxygen concentrations were observed along the continental margin of the East Siberian Sea and well out into the deep Makarov and Canada basins during the SWERUS-C3 expedition in 2014. This water had a low saturation state with respect to calcium carbonate, down to less than 0.8 for calcite and 0.5 for aragonite, and is traced in historic data to the Canada Basin and in the waters flowing out of the Arctic Ocean in the western Fram Strait.