Particle triggered reactions as an important mechanism of alkalinity and inorganic carbon removal in river plumes
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2021-05-20Author
Wurgaft, Eyal
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Wang, Zhaohui Aleck
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Churchill, James H.
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Dellapenna, Timothy M.
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Song, Shuzhen
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Du, Jiabi
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Ringham, Mallory C.
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Rivlin, Tanya
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Lazar, Boaz
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27771As published
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093178DOI
10.1029/2021GL093178Keyword
calcium carbonate; carbon cycle; carbonate chemistry; heterogeneous reactions; Mississippi; river mouthsAbstract
The effects of heterogeneous reactions between river-borne particles and the carbonate system were studied in the plumes of the Mississippi and Brazos rivers. Measurements within these plumes revealed significant removal of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (TA). After accounting for all known DIC and TA sinks and sources, heterogeneous reactions (i.e., heterogeneous CaCO3 precipitation and cation exchange between adsorbed and dissolved ions) were found to be responsible for a significant fraction of DIC and TA removal, exceeding 10% and 90%, respectively, in the Mississippi and Brazos plume waters. This finding was corroborated by laboratory experiments, in which the seeding of seawater with the riverine particles induced the removal of the DIC and TA. The combined results demonstrate that heterogeneous reactions may represent an important controlling mechanism of the seawater carbonate system in particle-rich coastal areas and may significantly impact the coastal carbon cycle.
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Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2021. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 48(11), (2021): e2021GL093178, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093178.
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Wurgaft, E., Wang, Z. A., Churchill, J. H., Dellapenna, T., Song, S., Du, J., Ringham, M. C., Rivlin, T., & Lazar, B. (2021). Particle triggered reactions as an important mechanism of alkalinity and inorganic carbon removal in river plumes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(11), e2021GL093178.Related items
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