Acidification

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A photo of a diver aboce coral bleaching at Heron Island Feb 2016

Coral bleaching at Heron Island – CC BY by The Ocean Agency / XL Catlin Seaview Survey / Richard Vevers

Day 20 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Water » (previously).

Global ocean acidification mean sea water pH trend map from Multi-Observations Reprocessing from Copernicus.

Data

library(sf)library(ggplot2)library(rnaturalearth)library(glue)library(terra)library(ggspatial)eqearth <- "EPSG:8857"world <- ne_countries() |>   st_transform(eqearth)mask <- c(xmin = -179, ymin = -89, xmax = 179,  ymax = 89) |>   st_bbox() |>   st_as_sfc() |>   st_set_crs("EPSG:4326") |>   st_sf() |>   st_segmentize(100) |>   st_transform(eqearth) acid_trend <- "global_omi_health_carbon_ph_trend_1985_P20230930.nc" |>   rast() |>   rotate() |>   project(eqearth) |>   mask(mask)

Map

world |>  ggplot() +  layer_spatial(data = acid_trend,                aes(fill = after_stat(band1))) +  geom_sf(data = mask) +  geom_sf(color = "grey", fill = "white") +  scale_fill_viridis_c(name = bquote(Delta*pH~yr^-1),                        direction = -1,                        na.value = "white") +  labs(title = "Global ocean acidification",       subtitle = "mean sea water pH trend",       caption = glue("data: Copernicus / LSCE doi:10.48670/moi-00277                      Natural Earth - {st_crs(eqearth)$Name}                      https://r.iresmi.net - {Sys.Date()}")) +  theme_void() +  theme(plot.caption = element_text(size = 7, color = "grey40"),        plot.margin = unit(c(.2, .2, .2, .2), units = "cm"),        legend.position = "bottom",        legend.text = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust = 1))
Map of the Global ocean acidification - mean sea water pH trend
Figure 1: Global ocean acidification – mean sea water pH trend
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