The recent state and variability of the carbonate system of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and adjacent basins in the context of ocean acidification

Beaupré-Laperrière, Alexis; Mucci, Alfonso; Thomas, Helmuth

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3923-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3923-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3923-2020

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The recent state and variability of the carbonate system of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and adjacent basins in the context of ocean acidification

Alexis Beaupré-Laperrière, Alfonso Mucci, and Helmuth Thomas

Data sets

The Solubility of calcite and aragonite in seawater at various salinities, temperatures, and one atmosphere total pressure A. Mucci https://doi.org/10.2475/ajs.283.7.780

GEOTRACES: Multi-tracer investigation of the effect of climate change on nutrient and carbon cycles in the Arctic Ocean R. Francois, A. Mucci, C. Holmden, D. Varela, J. Cullen, K. Orians, M. Maldonado, P. Tortell, R. Rivkin, M. Kienast, H. Thomas, M. Hale, L. Miller, J. N. Smith, D. Sigman, M. Brzezinski, D. Weis, G. Fones, M. Saito, A. Allen, and S. Williamson https://doi.org/10.5443/11458

CO2 system data during the Circumpolar Flaw Lead M. Chierici and H. Thomas https://www.polardata.ca/pdcsearch/PDCSearchDOI.jsp?doi_id=10900

Measurements of the dissolved inorganic carbon system and associated biogeochemical parameters in the Canadian Arctic K. E. Giesbrecht, L. A. Miller, M. Davelaar,S. Zimmermann, E. Carmack, W. K. Johnson, R. W. Macdonald, F. McLaughlin, A. Mucci, W. J. Williams, C. S. Wong and M. Yamamoto-Kawai https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-91-2014

Partial pressure of carbon dioxide, dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, temperature, salinity and other variables collected from the surface underway observations and discrete bottle samples from CCGS Amundsen during the cruises in Baffin Bay, Nares S T. Papakyriakou, L. A. Miller, H. Thomas, A. Mucci and B. Else https://doi.org/10.7289/v5st7n3c

Short summary

Ocean acidification is the process by which the oceans are changing due to carbon dioxide emissions from human activities. Studying this process in the Arctic Ocean is essential as this ocean and its ecosystems are more vulnerable to the effects of acidification. Water chemistry measurements made in recent years show that waters in and around the Canadian Arctic Archipelago are considerably affected by this process and show dynamic conditions that might have an impact on local marine organisms.