“…Several variables, including pCO2sea, pCO2atm, kwa, kH, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll-a, salinity, wind, pH, DIC, TA influence the role of these waters as a CO2 sink or CO2 source. The determination of these variables is based on the CO2 calculation formula, which requires the values of the variables pCO2sea, pCO2atm, seawater solubility (kH) calculated as a function of temperature and salinity, gas transfer rate (kwa) calculated as a function of the wind speed, and the Schmidt number which is affected by sea surface temperature (Weiss, 1974;Wanninkhof, 1992;Takahashi et al, 2002;Zhu et al, 2009;Robbins et al, 2010;Kartadikaria et al, 2015;Du et al, 2015;Takahashi and Sutherland, 2017;Yan et al, 2018;. Based on the results of Spearman's correlation (Figure 9.)…”