Seawater carbonate chemistry and community calcification during a Molokai reef (Hawaii) study 2006

• Main Authors: Yates, Kimberly Kaye, Halley, Roberet B
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2006
• Subjects: Benthos; Calcification/Dissolution; Coast and continental shelf; Entire community; Field observation; Soft-bottom community; Tropical; DATE/TIME; Site; Salinity; Temperature, water; Radiation, photosynthetically active; Carbonate system computation flag; pH; Alkalinity, total; Carbon, inorganic, dissolved; Carbon dioxide; Bicarbonate ion; Carbonate ion; Partial pressure of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Fugacity of carbon dioxide water at sea surface temperature wet air; Aragonite saturation state; Calcite saturation state; Calcification rate of calcium carbonate; Oceanography; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Orion Ross conductivity probe; Calculated using seacarb after Nisumaa et al. 2010; pH, Electrode; Alkalinity, Gran titration Gran, 1950; Calculated; Alkalinity anomaly technique Smith and Key, 1975; European network of excellence for Ocean Ecosystems Analysis EUR-OCEANS; European Project on Ocean Acidification EPOCA; Orion; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.721997; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.721997

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