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. 2016 Jun 3;6:27019. doi: 10.1038/srep27019

Table 3. Seawater carbonate chemistry of the chamber experiments with dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and total alkalinity (A T) measured from water samples fixed with saturated mercuric chloride solution (HgCl2).

Expedition Treatment pHT Temperature (°C) AT (μmol kg−1) DIC (μmol kg−1) pCO2 (μatm) HCO3 (μmol kg−1) CO32− (μmol kg−1) CO2(>aq) (μmol kg−1) ΩCA ΩAR
1 control 8.05 28.0 2206 1887 381 1652 225 9.7 5.54 3.69
1 elevated-CO2 7.70 28.0 2282 2135 1028 1987 121 26.3 2.97 1.98
2 control 8.08 29.5 2270 1938 359 1693 236 9.5 5.78 3.84
2 elevated-CO2 7.75 29.5 2336 2171 906 2015 132 24.0 3.25 2.15

DIC and AT were inputted into the Excel macro CO2SYS and used to calculate pH at total scale (pHT), partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), bicarbonate (HCO3), carbonate (CO32−), aqueous carbon dioxide (CO2(aq)), the saturation state of calcite (ΩCA), and the saturation state of aragonite (ΩAR).