Citation:

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Name: Seawater carbonate chemistry and calcification in the Bahama Bank, 1964-1965
Creator: Eugene D Traganza
Published: 1967
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Keywords: Calcification/Dissolution; Coast and continental shelf; Entire community; Field observation; North Atlantic; Pelagos; Temperate

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Abstract:

Carbon dioxide is lost from the ocean by calcium carbonate precipitation (-p), photosynthesis (-b) and gas evasion at the sea surface (-g). Among the most active sites are warm shallow seas. In this paper seasonal studies on the Great Bahama Bank relate these processes in an equation which takes into account the indirect effects of advection (a), evaporation (e), and eddy diffusion (d). Calcium carbonate precipitation is very seasonal and accounts for about half of the total losses. The delta sum CO2/deltaCa ratio is always about 1.87 on the bank. A high summer carbonate loss is inversely correlated with summer increases of chlorinity and temperature suggesting that CaCO3 is precipitated inorganically or biogenic production of CaCO3 is regulated by these parameters or both.

Keyword(s):

Calcification/Dissolution; Coast and continental shelf; Entire community; Field observation; North Atlantic; Pelagos; Temperate

Project(s):

European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis (EUR-OCEANS)

European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA)

Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC)

Funding:

Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), grant/award no. 211384 : European Project on Ocean Acidification

Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), grant/award no. 511106 : European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis

Coverage:

Latitude: 25.250000 * Longitude: -79.170000

Event(s):

Traganza_Great_Bahama_Bank * Latitude: 25.250000 * Longitude: -79.170000 * Method/Device: Oceanography (OCE)

Comment:

In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Lavigne and Gattuso, 2011) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI).

Parameter(s):

#	Name	Short Name	Unit	Principal Investigator	Method/Device	Comment
1	Date	Date		Traganza, Eugene D
2	Salinity	Sal		Traganza, Eugene D
3	Temperature, water	Temp	°C	Traganza, Eugene D
4	Chloride	Cl	%	Traganza, Eugene D
5	pH	pH		Traganza, Eugene D		NBS scale, H ion concentration in µmol/l
6	Bicarbonate	[HCO3]-	mmol/l	Traganza, Eugene D
7	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/l	Traganza, Eugene D
8	Carbon dioxide, total	TCO2	µmol/l	Traganza, Eugene D
9	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/l	Traganza, Eugene D
10	pH	pH		Traganza, Eugene D	Calculated	NBS scale, H ion concentration in µmol/kg
11	Carbonate system computation flag	CSC flag		Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
12	pH	pH		Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)	Total scale, H ion concentration in µmol/kg
13	Carbon dioxide	CO2	µmol/kg	Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
14	Partial pressure of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	pCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
15	Fugacity of carbon dioxide (water) at sea surface temperature (wet air)	fCO2water_SST_wet	µatm	Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
16	Bicarbonate ion	[HCO3]-	µmol/kg	Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
17	Carbonate ion	[CO3]2-	µmol/kg	Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
18	Carbon, inorganic, dissolved	DIC	µmol/kg	Traganza, Eugene D	Calculated
19	Alkalinity, total	AT	µmol/kg	Traganza, Eugene D	Calculated using CO2SYS
20	Aragonite saturation state	Omega Arg		Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
21	Calcite saturation state	Omega Cal		Nisumaa, Anne-Marin	Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. (2010)
22	Calcification rate of calcium carbonate	Calc rate CaCO3	mmol/l/month	Traganza, Eugene D

License:

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)

Status:

Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)

Size:

279 data points

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