Carbon–climate feedbacks accelerate ocean acidification

Matear, Richard J.; Lenton, Andrew

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1721-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1721-2018

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Special issue:

The Ocean in a High-CO₂ World IV

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1721-2018

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Articles | Volume 15, issue 6

Research article

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22 Mar 2018

Research article |

| 22 Mar 2018

Carbon–climate feedbacks accelerate ocean acidification

Richard J. Matear and Andrew Lenton

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Final revised paper (published on 22 Mar 2018)
Preprint (discussion started on 16 Jun 2017)

Interactive discussion

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of the "Sensitivity of Future Ocean Acidification to Carbon Climate Feedbacks"', Anonymous Referee #1, 24 Jul 2017
- AC1: 'response to review', Richard Matear, 13 Oct 2017
RC2: 'REVIEW OF: Sensitivity of Future Ocean Acidification to Carbon Climate Feedbacks by Matear and Lenton', Anonymous Referee #2, 29 Jul 2017
- AC2: 'response to review', Richard Matear, 13 Oct 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (19 Oct 2017) by Jean-Pierre Gattuso

AR by Richard Matear on behalf of the Authors (01 Dec 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Dec 2017) by Jean-Pierre Gattuso

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (10 Jan 2018)

ED: Publish as is (10 Jan 2018) by Jean-Pierre Gattuso

AR by Richard Matear on behalf of the Authors (23 Feb 2018)

Short summary

We show climate–carbon feedbacks accelerate and enhance ocean acidification. Such an acceleration of ocean acidification may further undermine the ability of marine biota to adapt to the changing environment. Our study also identifies the need to use Earth system models to make future ocean acidification projections (relevance to AR6) and the need to reduce the uncertainty in the climate–carbon feedbacks.