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  • "Present day" (1990s) sea surface pH

  • Present day alkalinity

  • "Present day" (1990s) sea surface anthropogenic CO
    2

  • Vertical inventory of "present day" (1990s) anthropogenic CO
    2

  • Change in surface CO2−
    3     ion from the 1700s to the 1990s

  • Present day DIC

  • Pre-Industrial DIC

  • A NOAA (AOML) in situ CO
    2     concentration sensor (SAMI-CO2), attached to a Coral Reef Early Warning System station, utilized in conducting ocean acidification studies near coral reef areas

  • A NOAA (PMEL) moored autonomous CO
    2     buoy used for measuring CO
    2     concentration and ocean acidification studies

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