Sentences with phrase «increased ocean alkalinity»

Boron isotope data Arabian Margin (Neo-Tethyan Ocean) combined with a quantitative modelling suggest that during the latest Permian, increased ocean alkalinity primed the Earth system with a low level of atmospheric CO2 and a high ocean buffering capacity.

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This additional alkalinity could partially buffer changes in seawater pH associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 locally, thus reducing the impact of ocean acidification on coral growth.»

A decrease in ocean pH of 0.1 units corresponds to a 30 % increase in the concentration of H + in seawater, assuming that alkalinity and temperature remain constant.

The planetary - boundaries group, which published a sort of manifesto in 2009, argues for increased restraint and, where necessary, direct intervention aimed at bringing all sorts of things in the Earth system, from the alkalinity of the oceans to the rate of phosphate run - off from the land, close to the conditions pertaining in the Holocene.

The anthropogenic input of fossil fuel carbon into the atmosphere results in increased carbon dioxide (CO2) into the oceans, a process that lowers seawater pH, decreases alkalinity and can inhibit the production of shell material.

It would increase alkalinity and the oceans ability to absorb CO2.

In essence, CO2 increases both ocean acidity and ocean total alkalinity.

The increased CO2 has also increased (not reduced) total ocean alkalinity (TA).

Less strong El Ninos since 1998 have helped to flatten the decline in alkalinity but we can see that the decline remains in progress due to increased global cloudiness at a time of a less active sun and less sunshine into the oceans.

Increasing the alkalinity of ocean water around coral reefs has been proposed as a geoengineering measure to save shallow marine ecosystems.

The increased carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans is being recorded as a measured decrease in ocean alkalinity.