ESSD Earth System Science Data ESSD Earth Syst. Sci. Data 1866-3516 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/essd-6-175-2014 Measurements of total alkalinity and inorganic dissolved carbon in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent Southern Ocean between 2008 and 2010 Schuster U. 6 1 Watson A. J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9654-8147 1 6 Bakker D. C. E. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-5337 2 de Boer A. M. 3 6 Jones E. M. 4 6 Lee G. A. 2 Legge O. 2 Louwerse A. 6 1 Riley J. 5 Scally S. 6 College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4PS, UK Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Science, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Climate Sciences, Postfach 120161, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany International CLIVAR Project Office, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK formerly at: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK 06 05 2014 6 1 175 183 Copyright: © 2014 U. Schuster et al. 2014 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/6/175/2014/essd-6-175-2014.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/6/175/2014/essd-6-175-2014.pdf

Water column dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity were measured during five hydrographic sections in the Atlantic Ocean and Drake Passage. The work was funded through the Strategic Funding Initiative of the UK's Oceans2025 programme, which ran from 2007 to 2012. The aims of this programme were to establish the regional budgets of natural and anthropogenic carbon in the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, and the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, as well as the rates of change of these budgets. This paper describes in detail the dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity data collected along east–west sections at 47° N to 60° N, 24.5° N, and 24° S in the Atlantic and across two Drake Passage sections. Other hydrographic and biogeochemical parameters were measured during these sections, and relevant standard operating procedures are mentioned here. <br><br> Over 95% of dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity samples taken during the 24.5° N, 24° S, and the Drake Passage sections were analysed onboard and subjected to a first-level quality control addressing technical and analytical issues. Samples taken along 47° N to 60° N were analysed and subjected to quality control back in the laboratory. Complete post-cruise second-level quality control was performed using cross-over analysis with historical data in the vicinity of measurements, and data were submitted to the CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data Office (CCHDO), the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) and and will be included in the Global Ocean Data Analyses Project, version 2 (GLODAP 2), the upcoming update of Key et al. (2004).

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