{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(37)"],"submitter":["Wang Z"],"pubmed_abstract":["Coastal oceans, traditionally seen as a conduit for transporting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>)-derived anthropogenic carbon (C<sub>ANT</sub>) to open oceans, exhibit complex carbon exchanges at their interface. South China Sea (SCS) exemplifies this complexity, where interactions with the Pacific, particularly through Kuroshio intrusion, challenge the understanding of C<sub>ANT</sub> source and variability in a coastal ocean. Contrary to prevailing paradigm expectations, our high-resolution, long-term data reveal that C<sub>ANT</sub> in the SCS primarily originates from Pacific water injection across the Luzon Strait rather than atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> invasion. Over the past two decades, the SCS has experienced increasing C<sub>ANT</sub> levels, with notable interannual fluctuations driven by El Niño and La Niña events influencing Kuroshio intrusion, generating anomalously high and low C<sub>ANT</sub> inventories, respectively. This highlights an overlooked C<sub>ANT</sub> transport pathway from open to coastal oceans, responsible for cumulative ocean acidification that has already affected coral reefs enriched in the SCS located west of the Coral Triangle."],"journal":["Science advances"],"pagination":["eadn9171"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11397484"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Pacific Ocean-originated anthropogenic carbon and its long-term variations in the South China Sea."],"pmcid":["PMC11397484"],"pubmed_authors":["Roberts E","Liu Z","Dai M","Cao Z","Zhai W","Gan J","Luo Y","Lin Y","Wang Z"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Pacific Ocean-originated anthropogenic carbon and its long-term variations in the South China Sea.","description":"Coastal oceans, traditionally seen as a conduit for transporting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>)-derived anthropogenic carbon (C<sub>ANT</sub>) to open oceans, exhibit complex carbon exchanges at their interface. South China Sea (SCS) exemplifies this complexity, where interactions with the Pacific, particularly through Kuroshio intrusion, challenge the understanding of C<sub>ANT</sub> source and variability in a coastal ocean. Contrary to prevailing paradigm expectations, our high-resolution, long-term data reveal that C<sub>ANT</sub> in the SCS primarily originates from Pacific water injection across the Luzon Strait rather than atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> invasion. Over the past two decades, the SCS has experienced increasing C<sub>ANT</sub> levels, with notable interannual fluctuations driven by El Niño and La Niña events influencing Kuroshio intrusion, generating anomalously high and low C<sub>ANT</sub> inventories, respectively. This highlights an overlooked C<sub>ANT</sub> transport pathway from open to coastal oceans, responsible for cumulative ocean acidification that has already affected coral reefs enriched in the SCS located west of the Coral Triangle.","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Sep","modification":"2025-04-05T18:42:01.872Z","creation":"2025-04-05T18:42:01.872Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11397484","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39270023"],"doi":["10.1126/sciadv.adn9171"]}}