Sentences with phrase «aragonite saturate»

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Aragonite saturation is a ratio that compares the amount of aragonite that is actually present with the total amount of aragonite that the water could hold if it were completely saturated.

At 100 %, waters are saturated (solid black line - the aragonite saturation horizon); values larger than 100 % indicate super-saturation; values lower than 100 % indicate undersaturation.

Polar and sub-polar surface waters and the Southern Ocean will be aragonite under - saturated by 2100 (Orr et al., 2005) and Arctic waters will be similarly threatened (Haugan et al., 2006).