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Oxygen solubility in seawater: Better fitting equations

Herncin E. Garcia

College of Oceanography Oregon State University Corvallis 9733 l‐5503

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Louis I. Gordon

College of Oceanography Oregon State University Corvallis 9733 l‐5503

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First published: September 1992
Citations: 443

Abstract

We examined uncertainties associated with the routine computation of O2 solubility (Co*) at 1 atm total pressure in pure water and seawater in equilibrium with air as a function of temperature and salinity. We propose formulae expressing C*(at STP, real gas) in cm3 dm−3 and µmol kg−1 in the range (tFt 40°C; 0 ≥ S 42‰) based on a fit to precise data selected from the literature.

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