Book Synopsis Carbon Dioxide, Hydrographic, and Chemical Data Obtained During the R/V Hesperides Cruise in the Atlantic Ocean by :
Download or read book Carbon Dioxide, Hydrographic, and Chemical Data Obtained During the R/V Hesperides Cruise in the Atlantic Ocean written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This data documentation discusses the procedures and methods used to measure total carbon dioxide (TCO[sub 2]), total alkalinity (TALK), and pH at hydrographic stations during the R/V Hesperides oceanographic cruise in the Atlantic Ocean (Section A5). Conducted as part of the Work Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the cruise began in Cadiz, Spain, on July 14, 1992, and ended in Miami, Florida, on August 15, 1992. Measurements made along WOCE Section A5 included CTD pressure, temperature, salinity, and oxygen; and bottle salinity, oxygen, phosphate, nitrate, nitrite, silicate, TCO[sub 2], TALK, and pH. The TALK, TCO[sub 2], and pH were determined from titrations of seawater collected at 33 stations. The titration systems for measuring TALK and TCO[sub 2] were calibrated in the laboratory with certified reference materials (CRMs) before the cruise to ensure traceable results. Standard reference seawater provided by Andrew Dickson of Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) was used at sea to monitor the performance of the titration systems. The results agree with the laboratory results to[+-] 2[micro]mol/kg for TALK and[+-] 1[micro]mol/kg for TCO[sub 2]. The titration systems used to measure pH were calibrated with TRIS seawater buffers prepared in the laboratory and measured with an H[sub 2], Pt/AgCl, Ag electrode. The initial electromotive force (emf) of the titrations was used to determine the pH. The values of pH are thought to be reliable to[+-] 0.01 and are internally consistent with the measured values of TALK and TCO[sub 2] to[+-] 7[micro]mol/kg. The measured carbon dioxide system parameters have been used to calculate the in situ values of the fugacity of CO[sub 2] (fCO[sub 2]) for the surface water. The surface results are briefly discussed.
