bor {seacarb}

Total boron concentration (mol/kg)

Description

total boron concentration (mol\ kg^{-1})

Usage

bor(S, b)

Arguments

S

Salinity, default is 35

b

"l10" for using the formulation of Lee et al. (2010), "u74" for using the Uppstrom (1974), or "k18" for using the Kulinski et al. (2018), default is "u74"

Details

Note that the formulation of Kulinski et al. (2018) is specifically designed for the Baltic Sea. Three formulations are described in their paper:

• based on their measurements: TB = [umol/kg] = 10.838 * S + 13.821

• based on Kremling (1970 and 1972): TB [umol/kg] = 11.44 * S + 12.6; R2 = 0.95

• consensus regression (Kremling + their data): TB [umol/kg] = 11.405 * S + 11.869; R2 = 0.97s

The latter formulation is used here.

Value

bor

total boron concentration (mol\ kg^{-1}))

Author(s)

Heloise Lavigne, Aurelien Proye and Jean-Pierre Gattuso [e-mail]

References

DOE 1994 Handbook of methods for the analysis of the various parameters of the carbon dioxide system in sea water. ORNL/CDIAC-74. Oak Ridge,Tenn.: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Kulinski K., Szymczycha B., Koziorowska K., Hammer K. & Schneider B., 2018. Anomaly of total boron concentration in the brackish waters of the Baltic Sea and its consequence for the CO2 system calculations. Marine Chemistry. doi:s10.1016/j.marchem.2018.05.007.

Lee K., Tae-Wook K., Byrne R.H., Millero F.J., Feely R.A. and Liu Y-M, 2010 The universal ratio of the boron to chlorinity for the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74 1801-1811.

Uppstrom L.R., 1974 The boron/chlorinity ratio of the deep-sea water from the Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research I 21 161-162.

Examples

bor(35, "l10")