Published Data Library (PDL)
Western Channel Observatory (L4) inorganic carbon and total alkalinity (2008 - 2014)
The latest version of the dataset may be accessed here Inorganic carbon and total alkalinity at the WCO from the L4 site from 2008 to 2022
These data are made available under UK Open Government Licence with NERC preamble.
| Title | Inorganic carbon and total alkalinity at the Western Channel Observatory from the L4 site from 2008 to 2014. |
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| Author(s) | Denise Cummings 1; Sarah Dashfield 1; Joana Nunes 1; Ian J Brown 1; ... |
| Organisation(s) | (1) Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
| Subject | oceans |
| Digital object identifier (DOI) | doi:10.5285/1ec0cae5-071d-16e1-e053-6c86abc07d47 |
| Abstract | Dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity measurements sampled from station L4, part of the Western Channel Observatory, and analysed at Plymouth Marine Laboratory. These measurements, together with temperature, salinity, total phosphate and silicate, are used to calculate additional carbonate system parameters (pH, pCO2, saturation states of calcite and aragonite, HCO3- and CO32-) using the programme CO2sys [Pierrot et al 2006], with dissociation constants from [Mehrbach et al. 1973] refit by [Dickson and Millero 1987] and for KSO4 from [Dickson 1990]. Measurements were initially collected by PML for the DEFRApH project (2008-2010) and were continued as part of NERC National Capability as time-series monitoring at the Western Channel Observatory. |
| Citation | Cummings D.; Dashfield S.; Nunes J.; Brown I.J.; Fishwick J.; Findlay H.S.(2015). Inorganic carbon and total alkalinity at the Western Channel Observatory from the L4 site from 2008 to 2014. British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK. doi:10.5285/1ec0cae5-071d-16e1-e053-6c86abc07d47 |
| Temporal Coverage | 16 November 2010 - 15 December 2014 |
| Spatial coverage | English Channel |
| File formats | Delimited |
| Languages | English |
| Discovery metadata record | Hydrographic and biological time series data from the Western Channel Observatory (WCO) UK, from 1988 onwards, predominantly at stations L4 and E1 |
| Publisher | British Oceanographic Data Centre - Natural Environment Research Council, UK |
| Publication date | 02 September 2015 |
| Newer versions of this data | Inorganic carbon and total alkalinity at the WCO from the L4 site from 2008 to 2022 |
