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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5653-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5653-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 18
Research article
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21 Sep 2018
Research article |  | 21 Sep 2018

Increase of dissolved inorganic carbon and decrease in pH in near-surface waters in the Mediterranean Sea during the past two decades

Liliane Merlivat, Jacqueline Boutin, David Antoine, Laurence Beaumont, Melek Golbol, and Vincenzo Vellucci

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The fugacity of carbon dioxide in seawater (fCO2) was measured hourly in the surface waters of the NW Mediterranean Sea during two 3-year sequences separated by 18 years. A decrease of pH of 0.0022 yr−1 was computed. About 85 % of the accumulation of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) comes from chemical equilibration with increasing atmospheric CO2; the remaining 15 % accumulation is consistent with estimates of transfer of Atlantic waters through the Gibraltar Strait.
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