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Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3123-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3123-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
Technical note
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26 Nov 2025
Technical note |  | 26 Nov 2025

Blank variability in coulometric measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon

Matthew P. Humphreys and Sharyn Ossebaar

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The ocean is one of the main reservoirs of carbon dioxide (CO2) on Earth's surface, so it plays an important role in modulating the climate. In this paper, we propose an update to how dissolved CO2 in seawater is determined from laboratory data, which can sometimes improve the accuracy of these measurements.
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