Ocean pCO2 calculated from dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, and equations for K1 and K2:: validation based on laboratory measurements of CO2 in gas and seawater at equilibrium
Ocean pCO2 calculated from dissolved inorganic carbon, alkalinity, and equations for K1 and K2:: validation based on laboratory measurements of CO2 in gas and seawater at equilibrium
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10.1016/s0304-4203(00)00022-0
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发表时间:
2000-05-01
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3
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Keeling, CD
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Lueker, TJ;Dickson, AG;Keeling, CD
The partial pressure of carbon dioxide in the ocean's surface waters, precisely expressed as the fugacity (fCO(2)) is determined from dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (TA), and the first and second dissociation constants of carbonic acid, K-1 and K-2. The original measurements of K-1 and K-2 reported by Mehrbach et al. [Mehrbach, C., Culberson, C.H., Hawley, J.E., Pytkowicz, R.M., 1973. Measurement of the apparent dissociation constants of carbonic acid in seawater at atmospheric pressure. Limnol. Oceanogr. 18, 897-907] are reformulated to give equations for pK(1) and pK(2) (pK = - log(10)K) as a function of seawater temperature and salinity, consistent with the ''total hydrogen ion'' concentration scale:pK(1) = 3633.86/T - 61.2172 + 9.67770lnT - 0.011555 S + 0.0001152 S-2pK(2) = 471.78/T + 25.9290 - 3.169671nT - 0.01781 S + 0.0001122 S-2By equilibrating solutions of seawater with gas mixtures of known composition, we demonstrate that the above formulations of K-1 and K-2 give calculated fCO(2) values that agree with equilibrated values to 0.07 +/- 0.50% (95% confidence interval, fCO(2) up to 500 mu atm). Formulations of K-1 and K-2 based on other studies resulted in calculated fCO(2) values approximately 10% lower than the measurements. Equilibrations at fCO(2) above 500 mu atm yielded measured fCO(2) values higher than calculated values by on average 3.35 +/- 1.22% (95% confidence interval). The cause for the fCO(2) dependence of the results is not known.The uncertainties in pK(1) and pK(2) were combined with the analytical uncertainties typical of contemporary measurements of DIC and TA to reveal the expected reliability of seawater fCO(2) calculated from these parameters. For example, an uncertainty of 1.0 mu mol kg(-1) in DIC and 2 mu mol kg(-1) in TA (1 standard deviation (s.d.)) will result in uncertainty of the calculated fCO(2) of 1% or +/-3.5 mu atm at 350 mu atm (1 s.d.). (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.