Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis by G. Thomas Farmer & John Cook

Author:G. Thomas Farmer & John Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

12.6 Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is the lowering of the ocean pH and the increasing concentration of acid in the World Ocean. The ocean contains a very large reservoir of carbon that can be exchanged with the atmosphere because CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid and its dissociation products. As atmospheric CO2 increases, the interaction with the surface ocean will change the chemistry of seawater resulting in ocean acidification and this has already begun, as coral-reef environments are showing. The simplest chemical reaction that takes place when carbon dioxide comes in contact with water is the following:

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