Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Duarte, Pedro (Editor), Santana-Casiano, J. Magdalena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Oceanography.; Earth Sciences.

Oceans and the Atmospheric Carbon Content, presents an interdisciplinary overview of the role of the oceans as a carbon sink and its relation with pH increasing trends and climate change. This volume discusses topics such as: climate variability during the last deglaciation, based on a high-resoluti...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1 Climate variability in the north-western Iberian Peninsula during the last deglaciation
• 2 Impact of Oporto Metropolitan Area carbon dioxide emissions over the adjacent coastal zone
• 3 Present day carbon dioxide fluxes in the coastal ocean and possible feedbacks under global change
• 4 Aspects of phytoplankton communities response to climate changes
• 5 pH decrease and effects on the chemistry of seawater
• 6 Effects of sediment acidification on the bioaccumulation of Zn in R. Philippinarum
• 7 Contaminant cycling under climate change: Evidences and scenarios
• 8 The use of weight of evidence for environmental quality assessment in sediments above sub-seabed geological formations for the storage of carbon dioxide
• Conclusions
• Index.