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Measurement · Carbonate System · µmol/kg

Total alkalinity replicate 1

The registry carries no authored label for this measurement, so the name above is the canonical series' own description in metadata/measurement_type.csv (variable.csv holds the authored labels, five today).

NERC P01 MDMAP014P06 units KGUM umol/kgkey alkalinity_rep1 series alkalinity_rep1
2,084
values
317
sampling events
2008–2015
years
1
dataset
1–3,542 m
depth
Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jul · Aug · Oct · Nov
seasons

Heads-up The alkalinity_rep1 series from Hydrographic Bottle carries no flag at this grain, so its values cannot be screened this way.

Measured in

  • Hydrographic Bottle 2,084 values · 317 sampling events · 2008–2015 · 1–3,542 m · 25 grid cells · 26 cruises
    series alkalinity_rep1 · source column ta1 replicate no flag at this grain

One row per series, one cell per year, darker with more values — the same strip the front door draws per dataset and a species page draws per taxon. Each row is one dataset's own measurement_type; the label is written once, in the title above.

By depth

Values per depth band at the release grain, one thin bar per series. The bands are the record's own (0-102000+ m).

By month

Values per calendar month, one row per series: CalCOFI's quarterly cruises show as peaks in the months the ships sail.

Range & quality

bounds
The registry declares 0 … 5000 µmol/kg for alkalinity_rep1; a value outside it is dropped at the ingest (drop_out_of_bounds()).
observed
Hydrographic Bottle alkalinity_rep1 2182 · median 2244 · 2435 µmol/kg (5th–95th percentile 2217–2317)
flags
Hydrographic Bottle alkalinity_rep1 carries no quality code at the release grain; qual_ok keeps all 2,084.
baseline
A monthly climatology exists for this measurement (the release's climatology table: 1993–2013, dataset × grid cell × calendar month × 10 m bin), so the Explorer can draw anomalies against it rather than values.

Related measurements

  • Total alkalinity alkalinity · Carbonate Chemistry / DIC · 1984–2021 · 937 values · P01 MDMAP014 a replicate of the source's repeated analyses beside a reported mean; the providers have been asked which to publish

The same quantity from another platform or another kind of sample, each its own page and never merged into this one: a dataset's own bottle samples would count that dataset twice, an underway intake is not a cast, and a replicate is not a mean. The reason is the record's (related[].why).

Ways in

This page as data

Read from measurements.json of release v2026.09.10, written at release by calcofi4db::build_measurements_catalog() beside taxa.json. The catalog's index is /measurements/; the JSON-LD on this page is a schema.org/DefinedTerm in the NERC P01 term set with a PropertyValue per series.

Cite

Cite the release; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page — Hydrographic Bottle. The Explorer's Share → Cite writes it for the view you make.