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. 2010 Apr 30;10(5):4430–4455. doi: 10.3390/s100504430

Table 3.

Uncertainty budgets for cases 1 and 4 at temperatures of 5 and 20 °C.

Inputsa Calibration environment: water

Case 1 Case 4 Case 1 Case 4

Measurement conditions

Cmeas (mg dm−3) 12.71 12.71 9.01 9.01
tmeas (°C) a 5 5 20 20
stirring speed_meas (cm s−1) 30 30 30 30
tcal (°C) a 20 20 20 20
u(pcal) (Pa) 150 150 150 150
stirring speed_cal (cm s−1) 30 20 30 20
Δday_newΔcal-meas (day) 0 5 0 5
Δday_oldΔcal-meas (day) 0 0 0 0
Δmonth (month) 0 0.5 0 0.5

Input Parameters (xi)a Uncertainty contributions (indexes) of the input parameters xi

tcal 0% 0% 0% 0%
ΔTinstab 0% 0% 1% 0%
ΔJ0 2% 0% 0% 0%
ΔJcal_output 2% 1% 12% 1%
pcal 3% 0% 15% 0%
ΔCsat_cal 9% 1% 47% 1%
ΔpCO2 0% 0% 1% 0%
ΔpH2O_cal 2% 0% 9% 0%
ΔCread_cal 0% 0% 0% 0%
tmeas 3% 0% 0% 0%
ΔJ_meas_output 2% 3% 12% 4%
ΔCread_meas 0% 0% 1% 0%
Δlsme_drift 0% 2% 4% 2%
ΔEsme_drift 0% 0% 0% 0%
ΔJstir 0% 81% 0% 91%
Esme_membrane 77% 10% 0% 0%

Expanded uncertainties (k = 2) of Cmeas

U(Cmeas) 0.24 0.66 0.07 0.44
U(Cmeas), relative 1.9% 5.2% 0.8% 4.9%
a

The definitions of all the quantities and parameters are given in reference [31].