Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1225-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1225-2019
Research article
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12 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 12 Sep 2019

pCO2 variability in the surface waters of the eastern Gulf of Cádiz (SW Iberian Peninsula)

Dolores Jiménez-López, Ana Sierra, Teodora Ortega, Soledad Garrido, Nerea Hernández-Puyuelo, Ricardo Sánchez-Leal, and Jesús Forja

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The present study describes the surface distribution of the partial pressure of CO2 in the continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Cádiz. For this, eight oceanographic cruises were carried out between March 2014 and February 2016. This distribution presents a linear dependence with the temperature and it decreases with distance from the coast. The Gulf of Cádiz shows a mean rate of −0.18 ± 1.32 mmol m-2 d-1, with an annual uptake capacity of CO2 of 4.1 Gg C year-1.