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Locally interpolated alkalinity regression for global alkalinity estimation

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  • We introduce methods and software for estimating total seawater alkalinity from salinity and any combination of up to four other parameters (potential temperature, apparent oxygen utilization, total dissolved nitrate, and total silicate). The methods return estimates anywhere in the global ocean with comparable accuracy to other published alkalinity estimation techniques. The software interpolates between a predetermined grid of coefficients for linear regressions onto arbitrary latitude, longitude, and depth coordinates, and thereby avoids the estimate discontinuities many similar methods return when transitioning from one regression constant set to another. The software can also return uncertainty estimates scaled by user-provided input parameter uncertainties. The methods have been optimized for the open ocean, for which we estimate globally averaged errors of 5.8–10.4 μmol kg⁻¹ depending on which combination of regression parameters is used. We expect these methods to be especially useful for better constraining the carbonate system from measurement platforms—such as biogeochemical Argo floats—that are only capable of measuring one carbonate system parameter (e.g., pH). It may also provide a useful way of simulating alkalinity for Earth system models that do not resolve the tracer prognostically.
  • This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the author(s) and published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. The published article can be found at: http://www.aslo.org/lomethods/index.html Datasets were acquired from the Carbon Dioxide Information and Analysis Center (CDIAC) webpage, from the HOT-DOGS data portal (http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/hot-dogs/), and from the BATS data portal (http://bats.bios.edu/).
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  • Carter, B. R., Williams, N. L., Gray, A. R., & Feely, R. A. (2016). Locally interpolated alkalinity regression for global alkalinity estimation. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 14(4), 268-277. doi:10.1002/lom3.10087
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  • Funding was provided by the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) (N8R1SE3-PRF) and the US Global Carbon Data Management and Synthesis Project (N8R3CEA-PDM). A. R. Gray was supported by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship. This is PMEL contribution number 4390 and JISAO contribution number 2503.
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