Metrological challenges for measurements of key climatological observables. Part 3: Seawater pH

Metrologia

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2015, Pages R26-R39

  Dickson, A G ^a   Camoes, M F ^b   Spitzer, P ^c   Fisicaro, P ^d   Stoica, D ^d   Pawlowicz, R ^e   Feistel, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^d LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE MÉTROLOGIE ET D ESSAIS LNE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bates Guggenheim convention; hydrogen ion activity; operational definition; potentiometric measurement; seawater pH; spectrophotometric measurement; traceability

Indexed keywords

SEAWATER; SOLUTIONS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

GUGGENHEIM; HYDROGEN ION ACTIVITY; OPERATIONAL DEFINITION; POTENTIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; TRACEABILITY;

PH;

EID: 84957602128     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/53/1/R26     Document Type: Review

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