Ocean acidification may be increasing the intensity of lightning over the oceans

Mustafa Asfur; Jacob Silverman; Colin Price

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8

Ocean acidification may be increasing the intensity of lightning over the oceans

Mustafa Asfur, Jacob Silverman, Colin Price

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The anthropogenic increase in atmospheric CO₂ is not only considered to drive global warming, but also ocean acidification. Previous studies have shown that acidification will affect many aspects of biogenic carbon uptake and release in the surface water of the oceans. In this report we present a potential novel impact of acidification on the flash intensity of lightning discharged into the oceans. Our experimental results show that a decrease in ocean pH corresponding to the predicted increase in atmospheric CO₂ according to the IPCC RCP 8.5 worst case emission scenario, may increase the intensity of lightning discharged into seawater by approximately 30 ± 7% by the end of the twenty-first century relative to 2000.

Original language	English
Article number	21847
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-79066-8
State	Published - 14 Dec 2020
Externally published	Yes

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The authors would like to thank the Technical team at the Ruppin academic center: Mr. Yosi Moas and Mr. Asher Azoli. Special thanks to Asfur Wisam, and also to Dani Ramot (Fritzi) from IOLR for his invaluable help with the electronic aspects of the experimental setup. This work was supported by the Research Authority Ruppin academic center.

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