ReviewReviews of geophysics (Washington, D.C. : 1985)2020
Ocean Alkalinity, Buffering and Biogeochemical Processes.
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- Response of the Carbonate System to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: A Mesocosm-Scale Experiment.ACS ES&T water · 2026Article
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- Assessing the effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on marine protozoa: physiological dynamics and transcriptomic responses.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Subterranean environments contribute to three-quarters of classified ecosystem services.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Ecotoxicity assessment of dairy wastewater: environmental risks and regulatory needs.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Acetoclastic versus hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis: defining how pH and alkalinity shape acetate metabolism in a haloalkaliphilic methanogenic community for biomethane production.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage.Chemical reviews · 2026Review
- Ammonia oxidizers offset acidification stress via adaptive substrate affinity in aquatic ecosystems.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Ventilation and buffering capacity effects on ocean acidification in low oxygen environments.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Carbonate burial regimes, the Meso-Cenozoic climate, and nannoplankton expansion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Fine-Tuning an ISFET-Based Dual pH-Total Alkalinity Sensor for Operation in Seawater Using an Adjustable, Suspended Anode.ACS sensors · 2025Article
- Altered nutrient cycling functionality in seagrass meadows under a simulated future marine heatwave event.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Winners and losers under hydroxide-based ocean alkalinity enhancement in a Tasmanian plankton community.Journal of phycology · 2025Article
- Ocean alkalinity destruction by anthropogenic seafloor disturbances generates a hidden COScience advances · 2025Article
- Formation of the 15 Å phase as the most expanded hydrated mineral in cold subduction zone.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Variability in storm season intensity modulates ocean acidification conditions in the northern Strait of Georgia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Groundwater releases COScience advances · 2025Article
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Abstract
Alkalinity, the excess of proton acceptors over donors, plays a major role in ocean chemistry, in buffering and in calcium carbonate precipitation and dissolution. Understanding alkalinity dynamics is pivotal to quantify ocean carbon dioxide uptake during times of global change. Here we review ocean alkalinity and its role in ocean buffering as well as the biogeochemical processes governing alkalinity and pH in the ocean. We show that it is important to distinguish between measurable titration alkalinity and charge balance alkalinity that is used to quantify calcification and carbonate dissolution and needed to understand the impact of biogeochemical processes on components of the carbon dioxide system. A general treatment of ocean buffering and quantification via sensitivity factors is presented and used to link existing buffer and sensitivity factors. The impact of individual biogeochemical processes on ocean alkalinity and pH is discussed and quantified using these sensitivity factors. Processes governing ocean alkalinity on longer time scales such as carbonate compensation, (reversed) silicate weathering, and anaerobic mineralization are discussed and used to derive a close-to-balance ocean alkalinity budget for the modern ocean.
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