Spatial variation of total CO<SUB>2</SUB> and total alkalinity in the northern Indian Ocean: A novel approach for the quantification of anthropogenic CO<SUB>2</SUB> in seawater

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1999
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Abstract
As part of a cooperative effort of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) and of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) program, we have measured total CO 2 (TCO 2 ) and total alkalinity (TA) along three sections in the northern Indian Ocean.One section through the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea is parallel to the coast of Yemen.One section is across the Arabian Sea along the nominal 9N latitude and the other section is across the Bay of Bengal along the nominal 10N latitude.The measurements were performed on board R/V Knorr in September-October 1995.The primary purpose of this work is to understand the penetration of anthropogenic CO 2 along these ocean sections.Here, we present a novel approach to the calculation of anthropogenic CO 2 in the ocean based upon the fundamentals of water-sources mixing.Consequently, we rst describe the observations and mixing of water-sources before we describe the quanti cation of anthropogenic CO 2 concentrationsin these waters.The data show large spatial variations in surface seawater of both total CO 2 (up to 50 µmol kg 2 1 ) and total alkalinity (up to 40 µmol kg 2 1 ).The variations are mainly associated with physical processes characterized by water masses of different temperature and salinity.For example, at depths we observed low TCO 2 concentration at longitude 54E 6 2E associated with the low-salinity water mass owing northward.The contrasts between the sections across the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal emphasize the large property differences between the two ocean basins.Multiparametric analyses on the data clearly show the relative contributions of different water-sources in each of the ocean sections.The mixing coefficients calculated from the multiparametric analyses are further used to quantify anthropogenic CO 2 concentrations in each water-source.The results indicate that the surface water-sources contain 47.8, 42.1 and 50.4 µmol kg 2 1 in the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, respectively.In the surface waters there is slightly more anthropogenic CO 2 across the Bay of Bengal than across the Arabian Sea.In contrast, anthropogenic CO 2 has penetrated signi cantly deeper in the Gulf of Aden than in the Arabian Sea and in the Bay of Bengal.
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Authors Catherine Goyet, C. Coatanoan, Greg Eischeid, T. Amaoka, K Okuda, R. Healy, Shizuo Tsunogai
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Journal journal of marine research
Year 1999
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10.1357/002224099765038599
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https://doi.org/10.1357/002224099765038599
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