Measurements of total alkalinity and inorganic dissolved carbon in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent Southern Ocean between 2008 and 2010

Water column dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity were measured during five hydrographic sections in the Atlantic Ocean and Drake Passage. The work was funded through the Strategic Funding Initiative of the UK's Oceans2025 programme, which ran from 2007 to 2012. The aims of this prog...

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Published in:Earth System Science Data
Main Authors: Schuster, U., Watson, A. J., Bakker, D. C. E., de Boer, A. M., Jones, E. M., Lee, G. A., Legge, O., Louwerse, A., Riley, J., Scally, S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Marine Sciences
Southern Ocean
Drake Passage
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511450/
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/511450/1/essd-6-175-2014.pdf
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-6-175-2014
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Summary:Water column dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity were measured during five hydrographic sections in the Atlantic Ocean and Drake Passage. The work was funded through the Strategic Funding Initiative of the UK's Oceans2025 programme, which ran from 2007 to 2012. The aims of this programme were to establish the regional budgets of natural and anthropogenic carbon in the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, and the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, as well as the rates of change of these budgets. This paper describes in detail the dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity data collected along east–west sections at 47° N to 60° N, 24.5° N, and 24° S in the Atlantic and across two Drake Passage sections. Other hydrographic and biogeochemical parameters were measured during these sections, and relevant standard operating procedures are mentioned here.

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