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Decreasing pH trend estimated from 25-yr time series of carbonate parameters in the western North Pacific

  1. TAKASHI MIDORIKAWA1,*,
  2. MASAO ISHII1,
  3. SHU SAITO1,2,
  4. DAISUKE SASANO1,
  5. NAOHIRO KOSUGI1,
  6. TATSUO MOTOI3,
  7. HITOMI KAMIYA4,
  8. AKIRA NAKADATE4,
  9. KAZUHIRO NEMOTO4,
  10. HISAYUKI Y. INOUE5

Article first published online: 5 JUL 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00474.x

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Tellus B

Tellus B

Special Issue: SPECIAL ISSUE WITH MANUSCRIPTS PRESENTED AT THE 8TH INTERNATIONAL CARBON DIOXIDE CONFERENCE, ICDC8, IN JENA, GERMANY 13-19 SEPTEMBER 2009

Volume 62, Issue 5, pages 649–659, November 2010

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MIDORIKAWA, T., ISHII, M., SAITO, S., SASANO, D., KOSUGI, N., MOTOI, T., KAMIYA, H., NAKADATE, A., NEMOTO, K. and INOUE, H. Y. (2010), Decreasing pH trend estimated from 25-yr time series of carbonate parameters in the western North Pacific. Tellus B, 62: 649–659. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00474.x

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  1. 1

    Geochemical Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Nagamine 1–1, Tsukuba 305–0052, Japan

  2. 2

    Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC), Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima-chō 2–15, Yokosuka 237–0061, Japan

  3. 3

    Oceanographic Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Nagamine 1–1, Tsukuba 305–0052, Japan

  4. 4

    Global Environment and Marine Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, Otemachi 1–3-4, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100–8122, Japan

  5. 5

    Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, N10W5, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060–0810, Japan

* Corresponding author. e-mail: midorika@mri-jma.go.jp

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  1. Issue published online: 5 JUL 2010
  2. Article first published online: 5 JUL 2010
  3. (Manuscript received 23 December 2009; in final form 10 June 2010)

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