Attribution of corrosive bottom-water conditions to ocean acidification and other estuarine drivers in Puget Sound: an updated analysis
Presentation Abstract
Providing specific attribution of observed changes in biogeochemical signals to specific process drivers is notoriously challenging in coastal and estuarine ecosystems, with natural variability often substantially larger than an anthropogenic signal of interest, such as ocean acidification (OA). In 2010, we estimated that anthropogenic OA was responsible for 24–49% of the added corrosiveness observed in the bottom waters of southern Hood Canal, relative to conditions naturally present in CO2-rich upwelling water, with the remaining 51–74% due to respiration processes. For these purposes, “added corrosiveness” referred to the contribution of additional dissolved CO2 from uptake of anthropogenic CO2 (i.e. anthropogenic OA) or respiration within Hood Canal to undersaturation of aragonite beyond that in the upwelled source waters. Here we expand this analysis to encompass five cruise data sets for Hood Canal (2008–2011). We also determine the CO2 variability of marine source waters coming into Puget Sound using moored time-series in combination with empirical relationships developed for coastal waters, as well as the impact of different transport-time scenarios within the basin on our attribution estimates.
Session Title
Session S-04A: Frontiers of Ocean Acidification Research in the Salish Sea
Conference Track
Ocean Acidification
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2014 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
Start Date
1-5-2014 8:30 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 10:00 AM
Location
Room 615-616-617
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Carbon dioxide sinks--Pacific Coast (Wash.); Carbon cycle (Biogeochemsitry)--Puget Sound (Wash.); Ocean acidifcation--Puget Sound (Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Puget Sound (Wash.)
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Attribution of corrosive bottom-water conditions to ocean acidification and other estuarine drivers in Puget Sound: an updated analysis
Room 615-616-617
Providing specific attribution of observed changes in biogeochemical signals to specific process drivers is notoriously challenging in coastal and estuarine ecosystems, with natural variability often substantially larger than an anthropogenic signal of interest, such as ocean acidification (OA). In 2010, we estimated that anthropogenic OA was responsible for 24–49% of the added corrosiveness observed in the bottom waters of southern Hood Canal, relative to conditions naturally present in CO2-rich upwelling water, with the remaining 51–74% due to respiration processes. For these purposes, “added corrosiveness” referred to the contribution of additional dissolved CO2 from uptake of anthropogenic CO2 (i.e. anthropogenic OA) or respiration within Hood Canal to undersaturation of aragonite beyond that in the upwelled source waters. Here we expand this analysis to encompass five cruise data sets for Hood Canal (2008–2011). We also determine the CO2 variability of marine source waters coming into Puget Sound using moored time-series in combination with empirical relationships developed for coastal waters, as well as the impact of different transport-time scenarios within the basin on our attribution estimates.
