Modeling of the Total Alkalinity and the Total Inorganic Carbon in the Mediterranean Sea

Abed El Rahman Hassoun; Elissar Gemayel; Evangelia Krasakopoulou; Catherine Goyet; Marie Abboud-Abi Saab; Patrizia Ziveri; Franck Touratier; Véronique Guglielmi; Cédric Falco

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Modeling of the Total Alkalinity and the Total Inorganic Carbon in the Mediterranean Sea

Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Elissar Gemayel, Evangelia Krasakopoulou, Catherine Goyet, Marie Abboud-Abi Saab, Patrizia Ziveri, Franck Touratier, Véronique Guglielmi, Cédric Falco

Published in Journal of Water Resources and Ocean Science (Volume 4, Issue 1)

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Abstract

Measurements of the CO2 system parameters in the Mediterranean Sea are relatively scarce and not representative for all its sub-basins. High quality data collected on May 2013 during the 2013 MedSeA cruise covering the whole basin were used to provide for the first time linear relationships estimating the total alkalinity (AT) and the total dissolved inorganic carbon (CT) from salinity in each Mediterranean basin and sub-basin at different depth layers. These correlations show that a substantial quantity of alkalinity is added to the seawater during its residence time in the Mediterranean Sea, whereas the biological processes, the air-sea exchange and the high remineralization rate are responsible of the high CT concentrations in this sea. Moreover, these fits could be used to estimate the AT and CT from salinity where there are not available measurements of the carbonate system parameters.

Published in	Journal of Water Resources and Ocean Science (Volume 4, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.wros.20150401.14
Page(s)	24-32
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Carbonate System, Total Alkalinity, Total Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Fits, Mediterranean Sea

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Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Elissar Gemayel, Evangelia Krasakopoulou, Catherine Goyet, Marie Abboud-Abi Saab, et al. Modeling of the Total Alkalinity and the Total Inorganic Carbon in the Mediterranean Sea. J Water Resour Ocean Sci. 2015;4(1):24-32. doi: 10.11648/j.wros.20150401.14

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Abed El Rahman Hassoun

National Council for Scientific Research, National Center for Marine Sciences, Batroun, Lebanon
Elissar Gemayel

National Council for Scientific Research, National Center for Marine Sciences, Batroun, Lebanon
Evangelia Krasakopoulou

Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece
Catherine Goyet

IMAGES_ESPACE-DEV, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Marie Abboud-Abi Saab

National Council for Scientific Research, National Center for Marine Sciences, Batroun, Lebanon
Patrizia Ziveri

ICREA - Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Ed. Z, ICTA-ICP, Carrer de les columnes, E- 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Franck Touratier

IMAGES_ESPACE-DEV, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Véronique Guglielmi

IMAGES_ESPACE-DEV, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Cédric Falco

IMAGES_ESPACE-DEV, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France

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  abstract = {Measurements of the CO2 system parameters in the Mediterranean Sea are relatively scarce and not representative for all its sub-basins. High quality data collected on May 2013 during the 2013 MedSeA cruise covering the whole basin were used to provide for the first time linear relationships estimating the total alkalinity (AT) and the total dissolved inorganic carbon (CT) from salinity in each Mediterranean basin and sub-basin at different depth layers. These correlations show that a substantial quantity of alkalinity is added to the seawater during its residence time in the Mediterranean Sea, whereas the biological processes, the air-sea exchange and the high remineralization rate are responsible of the high CT concentrations in this sea. Moreover, these fits could be used to estimate the AT and CT from salinity where there are not available measurements of the carbonate system parameters.},
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