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The universal ratio of boron to chlorinity for the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans
Lee, K.,Kim, T.W.,Byrne, R.H.,Millero, F.J.,Feely, R.A.,Liu, Y.M. Pergamon Press ; Elsevier Science Ltd 2010 Geochimica et cosmochimica acta Vol.74 No.6
We report seawater boron concentration (mgkg<SUP>-1</SUP>) and chlorinity (%%) values measured in seawater samples (n=139) collected at various depths in the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans and the East/Japan Sea (located in the western temperate North Pacific). Our results indicate that variations in seawater boron concentration are strongly coupled to variations in chlorinity (and salinity), yielding a mean boron to chlorinity ratio of 0.2414+/-0.0009mgkg<SUP>-1</SUP>%%<SUP>-1</SUP> (boron to salinity ratio=0.1336+/-0.0005mgkg<SUP>-1</SUP>%%<SUP>-1</SUP>). This ratio was surprisingly universal throughout the water column in the three marine basins and across widely different ocean surface regimes, but differs from the generally accepted ratio of 0.232+/-0.005mgkg<SUP>-1</SUP>%%<SUP>-1</SUP> determined by Uppstrom (1974), which was based on only 20 measurements at four sites in the tropical Pacific Ocean. In converting total alkalinity to carbonate alkalinity (and vice versa) for thermodynamic calculations, the difference between these two ratios leads to a difference of 5μmolkg<SUP>-1</SUP> in estimates for ocean surface waters, where the contribution of borate to total alkalinity is typically greatest. We suggest the use of the new boron to chlorinity ratio for predicting seawater boron concentrations using chlorinity (or salinity) data.