Seawater carbonate chemistry and carbon fixation of a temperate plankton community in response to calcium- and silicate-based Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement

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A Large-scale mesocosm experiment was conducted in the temperate fjord ecosystem near Bergen, Norway during late spring 2022 to investigate the effects of OAE on biogeochemical processes and organisms under close-to-natural conditions. A non-CO2-equilibrated approach was chosen, simulating OAE with calcium- and silicon-based minerals. A gradient of five OAE levels was achieved by increasing total alkalinity (TA) by 0–600 µmol kg-1. Carbonate chemistry parameters were monitored for the total length of the 53-day experiment. The added TA remained relatively stable over the experimental period and the measured CO2 gas exchange rate was comparable to what would be expected for large oceanic regions. The study and data set offer insights into impacts of non-equilibrated alkalinity enhancement on the carbonate system, air-sea gas exchange and carbon fixation.This dataset is included in the OA-ICC data compilation maintained in the framework of the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (see https://oa-icc.ipsl.fr). Original data were downloaded from the PANGAEA dataset (see Source). In order to allow full comparability with other ocean acidification data sets, the R package seacarb (Gattuso et al, 2024) was used to compute a complete and consistent set of carbonate system variables, as described by Nisumaa et al. (2010). In this dataset the original values were archived in addition with the recalculated parameters (see related PI). The date of carbonate chemistry calculation by seacarb is 2026-05-26.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995136
Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.995139
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-137-2026
Related Identifier IsDerivedFrom https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.983061
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2-167-2010
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-3771-2024
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-79-2016
Related Identifier References https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/seacarb/index.html
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.995136
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Creator Schneider, Julieta; Riebesell, Ulf (ORCID: 0000-0002-9442-452X); Moras, Charly; Marín-Samper, Laura ORCID logo; Kittu, Leila ORCID logo; Ortiz Cortes, Joaquin ORCID logo; Schulz, Kai Georg ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Contributor Yang, Yan
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 869357 doi:10.3030/869357 OceanNETs: Ocean-based Negative Emission Technologies; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 871081 https://doi.org/10.3030/871081 AQUACOSM-plus: Network of Leading Ecosystem Scale Experimental AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Rivers, Lakes, Estuaries and Oceans in Europe and beyond
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 8380 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (5.206 LON, 60.265 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-05-14T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-07-05T00:00:00Z