Sentences with phrase «ocean acidity relates»
One of the most critical effects of increasing ocean acidity relates to the production of shells, skeletons, and plates from calcium carbonate, a process known as calcification.
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For example one ocean ecosystem model that I know is used in at least one GCM does not include any sort of parameterization related to ocean acidity.
Based on findings related to oceanic acidity levels during the PETM and on calculations about the cycling of carbon among the oceans, air, plants and soil, Dickens and co-authors Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii and James Zachos of the University of California - Santa Cruz determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by about 70 percent during the PETM.
Because the air and ocean exchange gases at the sea surface, ocean acidity and the atmospheric carbon dioxide are related.