The left side shows the depth of the saturation horizon with regard to the CaCO3 mineral aragonite, and the right side shows the surface ocean pH. The video is related to the paper “Rapid Progression of Ocean Acidification in the California Current System,” by N. Gruber; C. Hauri; Z. Lachkar; D. Loher at ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland; T.L. Frölicher at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ; G.-K. Plattner at University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland.”
Available here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/06/13/science.1216773.full
[Video courtesy of Nicolas Gruber and Claudine Hauri, ETH Zurich, See also http://www.ethz.ch/media/detail?pr_id=1106 ]
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