Marine Science Faculty Publications
Spectrophotometric Seawater pH Measurements: Total Hydrogen Ion Concentration Scale Calibration of m-cresol Purple and At-sea Results
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1993
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-0637(93)90048-8
Abstract
Spectrophotometric open-ocean seawater pH measurements are simple, fast and precise. The sulfonephthalein indicator m-cresol purple (mCP) is recommended for open-ocean surface-to-deep pH measurements. The salinity- and temperature-dependence of such measurements (293⩽T⩽303 and 30⩽S⩽37) is given as: pHT(sw) =1245.69T+ (2.11 × 10−3)(35 − S) + log(R − 0.00692.2220− R0.1330)">pHT(sw) =1245.69T+ (2.11 × 10−3)(35 − S) + log(R − 0.00692.2220− R0.1330) on the total hydrogen ion concentration scale ([H+]T = [H+]f + [HSO4−]), in units of mol·(kg-soln)−1. R is the ratio of indicator absorbances at molar absorptivity maxima (i.e. R + 578A/434A). The at-sea analytical precision of the technique, evaluated on two recent NOAA cruises, is approximately 0.0004 pH units.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, v. 40, issue 10, p. 2115-2129
Scholar Commons Citation
Clayton, Tonya D. and Byrne, Robert H., "Spectrophotometric Seawater pH Measurements: Total Hydrogen Ion Concentration Scale Calibration of m-cresol Purple and At-sea Results" (1993). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 1615.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1615
